What is recorded here

Headstone in Glaslough is a small stone found under a church pew in 1838 and set outside the tower, bearing the name John Connell and dates that may mark a life lived from 1671 to 1710. It is the kind of place where ordinary facts become a chamber: a man named, a date given, a body remembered, a town holding him beside its church. The uncertainty at the end does not weaken it; it invites you to lean closer.

Located outside the W wall of the tower of Glaslough Church of Ireland church of Salvator, this was found under a pew in the church in 1838. The headstone (dims 0.46m x 0.1-0.16m; H 0.76) has an incised inscription in roman capitals with dots between the words. It has been read (Shirley 1879, 297) as: HERE . LYETH / THE . BODY . / OF . JOHN . C / ONELL . W / HO . WAS . B / ORNE . THE . 4 / OF . MAY . / 1671 . / AND . DYED . / THE . 16 . OF . / MARCH . FOLLOWING. King (1895) reads the end of the inscription as: …AND . DYED . / THE . 16 . OF . / MARCH OF / 1710 WINO Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 9 November, 2016

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