LI-MNGT-0120

Record Date: 
20 April 2015
Exact wording of epitaph: 

{from J O'Connor's 1994 survey, Number 39 on page 7}

IHS

Is Ceim Sas Cas Ar Lar Fa Lic A core Chuilt
An Gle Shas Damh Nar Thalt A Bhfocal Gaoghloe
Seamus Caig O Dala An Bile Dearsgna
Is A Dhe Ghil Ailinn Fag E Measg Do Threaor

Seacht Ccead Deag Is Seachtmhaghatt Ro
Deacht                                                          
Dochatt N-A Dheig Acht Laethibh No Chatt
Breith As                                                      
O Theacht Mhic De Go Heag An Fhile Ba
Bheacht                                                    
Ba H-Aois Do Fheinidh Aon L V Is Ce
(Athair) Bith Cheart                                  

Translation
It Is A Sad Event That Time Accomplished
Champion                                                    
Famous Seamus O Dala - The Fair, Poetic
Scion                                                            
Who Was No Weakling In The Irish
Language                                                
Should Be Laid Low Beneath A Tombstone
Wrapt In A Mantle Of Clay                   

{Inscription from memorial slab over the grave}

INA LUI SA CHRE ANSEO
AG FEITHEAMH LEIS AN AISEIRI
TA SEAMUS O DALAIGH
ON LOCH MOR
DUINE DE FHILI NA MAIGHE A
THAITHIODH AN CHÚIRT ÉIGSE
I gCROMADH AN tSUBHAGHAIS
AGUS A FUAR BÁS AR AN
2 DEIREADH FÓMHAIR 1810

CONCHUBHAR O DÁLAIGH
TUAR AN DAILL AGUS BRÍ RÍ
A THÓG AN LEACHT SEO 1995

THIS IS THE BURIAL PLACE OF THE
GAELIC POET SEAMUS Ó DÁLAIGH
OF LOUGHMORE DIED 1810 

                

 

Memorial Type: 
Headstone
Grave location
County: 
Latitude: 
52.633935
Longitude: 
-8.6752780555556
People commemorated: 
Name: 
Seamus
Surname: 
O Dálaigh
Date of death - day: 
2
Date of death - month: 
November
Date of death - year: 
1810
Age: 
60
Address: 
Loughmore
Notes: 

From J O'Connor's survey page 8 - There are exactly 1700 (years) And 70, followed by 40, with the exception of some days from the coming of the son of God to the death of the perfect poet. His own age was one plus fifty plus five plus four exactly. i.e. sixty years.

This is number 65 on the graveyard display panel.

Also it is number 39 in John O'Connor's 1994 survey of the graveyard headstone inscriptions.