What is recorded here

Graveslab in Lagavooren is a worn limestone slab now buried under porch paving, preserving Roman capitals and two coats of arms for Richard Bryce, alderman of Drogheda, and his wife. It joined three other seventeenth-century memorial slabs inside the modern church and graveyard, turning a busy entrance into a place where ordinary footsteps repeatedly crossed a married name and civic pride. The slab may have watched Drogheda marriages, funerals and market days for generations before men lifted it from a grave and dropped it beneath traffic.

Limestone slab now used in the paving of the porch and very worn. It has an incised inscription in Roman capitals on one side only, below which can be seen two coats of of arms. The inscription is in memory Richard Bryce, alderman of Drogheda, and his wife. (CLAJ 1945, 26; Bradley 1984b, 96-7). One of four tomb or memorial slabs (see also LH024-041091-, LH024-041103-, LH024-041104-) located in the modern church and graveyard; all are seventeenth-century in date. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Survey of County Louth' (entry 943) (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1991). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 21 June 2013

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