What is recorded here

There is a record of a memorial slab to an unknown person with the date 1623 which mentions his wife, Elizabeth Fitzgerald (Weld 1832, 359) in the cathedral (RO016-127001-). The stone survives (Wth 0.9m; H 2.1m; T 0.1m) against the inner face of the N wall but its inscription is illegible apart from the dates in roman numerals. Weld recorded the inscription as: MS / Exuviae / Audoenni ovd….armiger / Quas in Elphinesai…. recondi…./ Supremis….ulis…./ manebit / Cartissimam fidem in Catholico / Fidelium resurgentium coeternum induendi / Natus est anno aerae Christian… / MDCXXIII (1623) Denatus XVIII Januarii anno / MDCLXIIII (1664) / Uxore Elizabetha Fitzgealdr / Cum sexi Iberis superslite / Quae doloris suae atque amoris / partier summi / Hoc monumentum / Viro maerens posuit /Tandem deposuit quiequid erat / Mortale Elizabetha supra scritn….. The rest was illegible. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of revised upload: 19 June 2015

A wall monument in Elphin, dating to 1623, commemorates an unknown individual and his wife, Elizabeth Fitzgerald; it is a surviving memorial slab within the cathedral, reflecting early 17th-century funerary practice.

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