DU-MUDT-0186

GLORIA IN EXCELSIUS DEO IHS MEMENTO MORI THIS STONE WAS ERECTED BY JAMES BROPHY OF WATLING STREET OF THE COUNTY OF THE CITY OF DUBLIN IN MEMORY OF HIS BELOVED WIFE CATHERINE BROPHY WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE ON THE 14TH OF DECEMBER 1817 AGED 30 YEARS ALSO 4 OF THEIR CHILDREN WHO DIED YOUNG HERE ALSO ARE INTERRED THE REMAINS OF THE ABOVE NAMED JAMES BROPHY WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE ON THE 27TH OF APRIL 1825? AGED 59 YEARS. SILENT ALAS BENEATH THIS STONE DELAYED VIRTUES DARLING THE POOR MANS FRIEND IS LAID. THIS GENEROUS HEART ALIVE TO OTHERS GRIEF. STILL URGED HIS HAND TO MINISTER RELIEF HE WHO DRIED THE ORPHAN AND WIDOW TEARS WAS SNATCHED AWAY IN BLOOM OF YEARS. HIS BELOVED WIFE AND THOSE THAT BEAR HIS NAME