What is recorded here

Graveslab in Moydow Glebe is a late-17th-century stone in County Longford, Ireland, bearing the names Francis Ferrall and Elinor Coghlan. Francis died in 1681 at eighteen, while Elinor died in 1702 as wife of Francis O'Ferrall Boy of Mornyn Esq. The weathered carving shows IHS, a fleur-de-lys cross, the Sacred Heart, three nails and INRI, turning a private loss into a stark Catholic symbol.

In the SW quadrant of a graveyard (LF019-030001-). One of two (see also LF019-030004-) late-17th-century, recumbent, rectangular graveslabs (L 1.65m; Wth 0.78m; T 0.17m). The inscription, carved in false relief, is very weathered and, in parts, almost illegible. The monogram 'IHS' is carved on the head and a fleur-de-lys cross rises from the centre of the cross-bar of the H. The Sacred Heart and three nails are depicted below the cross-bar and the cross is flanked on either side by INRI. The inscription reads: ‘Here lyeth the body of Francis/Ferrall interred who dyed the tenth/of July year 1681 aged Eighteen/ Years/ Here lyeth the body of Elinor/Coghlan wife of Francis O'Ferrall/Boy of Mornyn Esq. Who dyed the/24 day of June 1702’ (Baxter 1999, 94-6; no. 162; Lennon 2006, 69). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 5 June 2013

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