What is recorded here

Graveslab in Jamestown (ida By.) is a chancel floor slab preserving Robert Den and Johanna Aylward beneath a raised cross and Passion emblems. Its Latin letters and carvings turned a private death into a public warning about suffering, judgement and remembrance. Anyone walking past may have felt the church floor itself carrying their names forward.

In the corner of the chancel of Ballygurrim church (KK041-007001-). A floor slab with a Latin inscription in Roman capitals commemorating Robert Den of Ballybussher (d. 1626), and his wife Johanna Aylward. The slab has a large cross in relief down the centre at each side of which are emblems of the Passion. (Carrigan 1905, vol. 4, 88-9; Cockerham 2009, 356) Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 22 July 2013

A 17th-century Christian gravestone; significant as a historical memorial within a church context.

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