Gloria in Excelsis deo
IHS
Memento Mori
The United Parishes of Lucan and Palmerstown
erected this tombe stone over the mortal remains | of Revd James
McCarran
RC Curate of the said parishes
(as a) grateful tribute of their respect for and
(as a) lasting monument of their sincere regret
(of the lo)ss of that worthy clergyman by whose
(death society) was deprived of a valuable member
and religion one of her most zealous Ministers
Lamentable to add! He fell a victim to the
... sacrilegious hands of a sanguinary banditi
by whom he was robbed and murdered on the
Hill of Lucan on the 3rd day of June A.D. 1807 and in the 42nd year of
his age.
Requiescant in Pace Amen
This is the gravestone of the Catholic Parish Priest of Lucan who was famously murdered in 1807 at the top of Chapel Hill. The gravestone spells his name "McCarran", however, most records list him as "McCartan". One of the missing pieces of the gravestone, with inscription, have been found in parts of the graveyard, one is currently mortared into the low South wall of the church in the chancel area.