What is recorded here

Graveslab in Cartron marks the children of Captain Robert Parke, who died in 1671, yet his own memorial appeared six years later in 1677. The chamber holds plain limestone slabs while the attached field remains empty of burial proof. A father may have waited through years of grief before setting his name beside them, turning a private loss into a permanent local witness.

There are plain limestone grave-markers within the church (LE010-036001-) but there is no evidence of burial in the overgrown rectangular field (dims 38m N-S; 18m E-W) attached to the N. There is a record of a memorial commemorating two children of Robert Parke (d. 1671). The inscription reads: HERE LYETH THE BODYES OF ROB/ERT AND MARY CHILDREEN [sic] TO CAP. ROBERT PARKE / 1677. (FitzGerald 1910-12c; Foley and Donnelly 2012, 20). Recorded as a flat slab within the walls of the church, it cannot now be identified (Moore 2003, 173, No. 1400; ibid.). Revised by: Paul Walsh Date of upload: 6 December 2012

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