What is recorded here

Darby McMahon died in 1698 and his name was cut into Clareabbey stone, yet centuries of rain erased the very marker that proved his existence. The headstone still lies buried under grass and forgetting, visible only to someone willing to dig through loss. What remained is not a date or a life but a shape of absence, waiting for a hand brave enough to follow it into the dark.

This record is for an incised headstone within Clareabbey (CL033-120----) in memory of Darby McMahon, dated 1698 (Fitzgerald 1900-3, 15). The graveyard inscriptions at Clareabbey were documented by the Clare Roots Society in 2008 and are accessible at http://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclare/genealogy/don_tran/graves/clareabbey_graveyard_ennis.htm; accessed on 27 May 2015. Many of the graveslabs were found to have weathered considerably since the early 1900s and the inscriptions were no longer legible. This particular headstone could not be identified. Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 18 May 2015

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