This tablet is erected
by his sorrowing widow and children
to the memory of John Vandeleur
Late Colonel of H M Xth Hussars
who died at Ballinacourty in this parish
April 1st 1864 Aged 71
He served with distinction through
the Peninsular War and at Waterloo as
Aid De-camp to Genl Sir John Ormsby Vandeleur
Also in the 71st Regt and 12th Lancers
"The trumpet shall sound
and the dead shall be raised incorruptible
and we shall be changed"
I COR XV 52 V