ME-ARCH-0434

Record Date: 
10 September 2021
Graveyard: 
Ardcath
Exact wording of epitaph: 

SWEET JESUS
HAVE MERCY ON THE SOUL
OF
EDWARD GARGAN,
SON OF 
THOMAS GARGAN
OF NEWTOWN
WHO DIED 26TH NOV 1898
AGED 55 YEARS
AND HIS WIFE
KATE GARGAN
WHO DIED 4TH APRIL 1917
ALSO THEIR NEPHEW
MATT LANGAN
WHO DIED 30TH NOVR 1947
AND HIS WIFE
SIS LANGAN
WHO DIED 19TH SEPT 1967
MOWBRAY LANGAN
DIED 5TH OCT 1994

R. I. P.

Memorial Type: 
Headstone
Grave location
County: 
Meath
Latitude: 
53.607105555556
Longitude: 
-6.393725
Additional details
Inscription legible: 
Yes
Number of people commemorated: 
5
People commemorated: 
Name: 
Edward
Surname: 
Gargan
Date of birth - year: 
1843
Date of death - day: 
26
Date of death - month: 
November
Date of death - year: 
1898
Age: 
55
Address: 
Newtown
Name: 
Kate
Surname: 
Gargan
Date of death - day: 
4
Date of death - month: 
April
Date of death - year: 
1917
Relationship with first person: 
Wife
Name: 
Matt
Surname: 
Langan
Date of birth - day: 
30
Date of birth - month: 
November
Date of birth - year: 
1947
Age: 
69
Address: 
11 Haddon Road, Clontarf East, Dublin 3
Relationship with first person: 
Nephew
Name: 
Sis
Surname: 
Langan
Date of death - day: 
19
Date of death - month: 
September
Date of death - year: 
1967
Relationship with first person: 
? (wife of Matt Langan)
Name: 
Mowbray
Surname: 
Langan
Date of birth - day: 
5
Date of birth - month: 
May
Date of birth - year: 
1908
Date of death - day: 
5
Date of death - month: 
October
Date of death - year: 
1994
Age: 
86
Address: 
(Greenogue?) Ashbourne
Relationship with first person: 
?
Notes: 

Matthew Joseph Langan, born 17 Mar 1878, Cherryville, Co.Kildare.
See birth cert from [GROI]. From here. Could this be him and his widowed mother Anne listed in [Census, 1901] at Collierstown, Co.Meath (see map). Except it lists him as born Co.Meath.
He is listed as "gentleman", of Ratoath, Co.Meath, at mar.
He mar 15 September 1908, St.Andrew's RC church, Dublin, to Cis Humphrys [Margaret, bapt 6 Mar 1877]. Mar wit by Richard Langan and Mary Humphrys. See mar cert from [GROI]. From here.
They went to Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire. He managed a stable there. Returned to Ireland by 1910. He was a horse trainer in Greenogue, Co.Meath. There by 1910. See them listed in [Census, 1911] at Greenogue. He is "farmer and jockey". They have 2 servants and 2 grooms living with them.
He supplied horses for hunting for the British Army. Many relatives went hunting with him, including Mick Humphrys and Ned Lloyd and Jim Humphrys and Jack Walters.

Humphrey Langan said his father had a bad riding accident, age 35 (c.1914), was in hospital for 4 years. Humphrey Langan said that around WWI, his mother was in the Mansion House for a dinner. She was sitting beside "The Bird" Flanagan. She had heard about him, and she committed the social gaffe of the evening by turning to him and saying: "Oh yes, Mr. Bird, I was just going to say ..."
After Independence, the British Army customers were gone.
Matthew sold Greenogue 1930 to the (later) famous trainer Tom Dreaper. Family came to Dublin.
Matthew and Cis had issue:

Cis worked as a model for Manning's, the fashionable women's shop on Grafton St, Dublin. She used to model fashions for the ladies of the Viceregal court at the Viceregal Lodge. This was during the time of the Marquess of Aberdeen (1905-15). She was always ambivalent about her relations' nationalism after that. Manning's is listed in [Thom's, 1905] as "Court costumiers, furriers, lace and lingerie manufacturers, silk merchant, etc.", 102-103 Grafton St.
She met Matthew when she was working in Manning's. She lived over Manning's shop for a time. She is listed as living 102 Grafton St (Manning's) at mar. She mar 1908 to Matthew Langan and had issue.


Mowbray - Ardcath Register of Interments records his name as "Daniel Langan" with a last address of 1 Olive Court, Monkstown and that his occupation was Retired Bank ..? Dan Langan, born 1909, Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, where his parents briefly lived,

he was called "Mowbray" Langan, or "Mo", listed as age 2 in 1911 census, worked in bank, mar Diana Byrne [Di, Alice Mabel Byrne, born c.1908], they both fl 1992, he died 1994. had issue:

LANGAN (Co. Dublin) - July 3, 2007, in the special care of the staff at Glengara Park Nursing Home, Diana (Di), widow of Mowbray (Mo), much-loved mother of Ann, Lorna, and Matt. Deeply regretted by sons-in-law Feargall and Derek, daughter-in-law Anthea, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, relatives and friends. Memorial service to be held at a later date.??

Mowbray Langan - Ardcath Register of Interments records his name as "Daniel Langan", his occupation as "retired bank" and his last place of residence as 1 Oliva Court, Monkstown.