What is recorded here

Charles Hallinan died in 1697 and his incised headstone still stands in Clareabbey, though time has erased the words that once named him. The stone resists forgetting even when memory fails, holding a life in shape rather than script. Hallinan may have been a farmer, a trader or a father, but the graveyard keeps him without explanation.

This record is for an incised headstone within Clareabbey (CL033-120----) in memory of Charles Hallinan, dated 1697 (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: 19 May 2015

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