CV-MOOL-0189

Record Date: 
14 July 2017
Graveyard: 
Moybologue Old
Exact wording of epitaph: 

This Chapple and Monument was Erected by Fr. John Garrigan of the Tribe of Bryan More … Pastor of this Parish of Kilmainhamwood…work in Honour of St. Michael the Archangel…45 years past who likewise…the said family and Begs the Good Prayers of all True Christians…Dated the 2nd Day of Nov ANNO DM 1721.

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Memorial Type: 
Grave slab
Grave location
County: 
Cavan
Latitude: 
53.872063888889
Longitude: 
-6.9502972222222
Number of people commemorated: 
7
People commemorated: 
Title: 
Fr.
Name: 
John
Surname: 
Garrigan
Date of birth - year: 
1649
Date of death - year: 
1730
Age: 
81
Address: 
Fr. Garrigan was born in Greaghnadarragh, was 55 in 1704, and was ordained in Dublin in 1677 (Aged 28).
Title: 
Reverend
Name: 
Maurice
Surname: 
Gargan
Date of death - year: 
1621
Name: 
Mac Dergan Maighe Bolg
Surname: 
Mac Garrigan of Moybolge
Date of death - year: 
1634
Address: 
Ref. O'Connell, Phillip, Schools & Scholars of Breifne, Browne & Nolan: Dublin, 1942, p. 259 (Royal Irish Academy MS. E. iv. I, folios 51, 52.)
Name: 
Emonn m Briain Oig Mhic Dergan
Surname: 
Eamonn son of Brian Oge Mac Garrigan
Date of death - year: 
1634
Address: 
Ref. O'Connell, Phillip, Schools & Scholars of Breifne, Browne & Nolan: Dublin, 1942, p. 260 (Royal Irish Academy MS. E. iv. I, folios 51, 52.)
Name: 
Patrick
Surname: 
MacGargan
Date of death - year: 
1542
Name: 
Philip Roe
Surname: 
MacGargan
Date of death - year: 
1634
Name: 
Donagh
Surname: 
Gergan
Date of death - year: 
1664
Notes: 

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Possible burial place of Reverend Maurice Gargan, died 1621, Vicar-General of Diocese of Kilmore.

Listed as National Monument: CV034-046006-

Extract Taken From

O’Connell, Philip. 1942. The Schools and Scholars of Breifne. Dublin: Browne and Nolan.

 Chapter VI – Classical Schools and Their Teachers – PP.259-302 

 P.260 - 261

"The broken fragments of a massive horizontal monumental slab, which had been erected by Father Garrigan in 1721 to mark his family burial place, have recently been unearthed in the ancient cemetery of Moybolge-to the east of the ruined church. The inscription, which is in English, is in the mediaeval style, continued around the edges of the slab. Some of the fragments are missing, and pending further exploration the complete inscription is not available. The following portions of the much-worn inscription have been deciphered: -

This Chapple and Monument was Erected by Fr. John Garrigan of the Tribe of Bryan More … Pastor of this Parish of Kilmainhamwood…work in Honour of St. Michael the Archangel…45 years past who likewise…the said family and Begs the Good Prayers of all True Christians…Dated the 2nd Day of Nov ANNO DM 1721.

The centre of the slab displays a recumbent figure in clerical garb. On the head is shown a Maltese pectoral cross. Rev. Dr. Traynor, Diocesan Catechist, who has examined the monument very carefully, expresses to me the opinion that the figure is that of a Knight or Hospitaller of St. John of Jerusalem. The Commandery of Kilmainhamwood, long since united ecclesiastically with Moybolge, was founded in the thirteenth century for the Knights of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem. The monument was probably meant to perpetuate the tradition. Alongside the recumbent figure is depicted the head of St. Michael the Archangel. Above the figure is shown the Sacred Monogram, and the letters S.M., which most probably stand for St. Michael. The fragmentary condition of the monument makes its complete interpretation not possible at present, but it is possible that further fragments, containing the missing portions of the inscription, may be located in a further search. The monument was discovered when about a foot of earth was removed from the traditional burial place of the Garrigan family. The reference in the inscription to the 45 years’ past is to the period from his ordination in 1677 to the erection of the monument in 1721. Father Garrigan died about 1730, and rests in the family burial plot a few yards to the east of the ruined edifice which once served as his church and school. No inscription recording the date of his death has been discovered; many monuments of the period have long since been buried under the accumulated debris." 

[Transcribed from source and uploaded by Brian Callaghan]

Entries 5, 6 & 7 above from Kelly, Liam, 2017 The Diocese of Kilmore c.1100-1800, Columba: Dublin, p. 257.