CV-MOOL-0063

Record Date: 
1 July 2019
Graveyard: 
Moybologue Old
Exact wording of epitaph: 

THIS MONUMENT EREC
TED BY . THORLAGH SMITH
NAS OWANAVALLY. AND.
MARGRET SMITH ALES GE
BROAN HIS WIFE FOR THER
FAMILIE ANNO D. 1650
This stone Was erected
By Philip Smith of Leitrim
in memory of his father
_______ Smith Who deprd
This life October Y_______
______________________
Di_______E___________is
______________________
______________________
______________________
___________
Posterity   Requiescant
______________in pace

Memorial Type: 
Grave slab
Grave location
County: 
Cavan
Latitude: 
53.871744444444
Longitude: 
-6.9506222222222
Additional details
Inscription legible: 
Yes
Number of people commemorated: 
2
People commemorated: 
Surname: 
Smith
Date of death - year: 
1650
Notes: 

During 2000 Survey Inscription was already too worn to be recorded. Survey Number: MG 40.

The following information is taken from: 
O’Connell, Phillip. 1923. Moybolge and its Ancient Church. The Breifny Antiquarian Society's Journal,  Vol. II, pp. 190-226, 1923-6.
P.216
"A raised tomb, situated to the left of the entrance gate has an inscription, in Gothic characters, which record that it was erected by Thorlagh Smith and his wife Margaret, for their family, A.D., 1680.

It bears the Smith coat of arms. The inscription is very much worn."

New Record Added to SMR 19 March 2020 - CV034-046013-