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Around 1749 Issac Butler recorded the Latin inscription on the graveslab dated 1692 of William Gough and his mother, Ann Cheevers, at Athlumney church, (Butler 1892, 24). It read: Hoc Monumentum est erectum inveri/ Bon AE Vite Boni Gulielmi Gough Memo/ riam./ Et Ejus Sponsae Matronae spectassimae/ Anno CHEevers quare hic tumulatur et/ Utr /usque Posteris Anno Domini/ 1692/ Tatu – Disce quis hac lapidum Submole Viator/ Conditur et Coelum Scandere posce Deum.
A rectangular limestone graveslab (dims 2.05m x 1.09m; T 0.12m) in the nave has a raised heater-shaped shield at the centre that is divided by a line of chevrons. At least one goat taken from the Cheevers crest can be distinguished below the chevrons and the items above it could be boars’ heads from the Gough crest. There is a skull and cross-bones at the foot, but no inscription is discernible. It is also described by FitzGerald (1909-10) who does not provide the inscription, which is now illegible.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 3 July, 2014
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