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Ancient Burial Ground of Magheny

'There is in the parish of Drung a very curious and very ancient burial-place, called Magheny, "a little plain" ---a curious misnomer, as the site is on the top of a very steep hill. I cannot find a solitary reference to it in any work I have come across, nor it is marked in any maps that I have seen. There are traces --very slight-- of building in the enclosure, but it is impossible to trace or follow the outline. It has belonged to the Roman Catholic Church time out of mind. It is now overgrown with weeds, and very badly cared for. A few of the inscriptions are as follows'
[Rev. J. Wallace Taylor, LL.D. in Journal of the Association for the Preservation of the Memorials of the Dead in Ireland, vol 3, No. 1, 1895, p. 32-3]

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THIS STONE WAS | ERECTED BY | RICHARD McPHILLIPS IN | REMEMBERANCE | OF HIS FATHER ED | WARD McPHILLIPS | WHO DEPARTED THIS | LIFE NOVEMBER | 27th 1774. [Rude representation of the Crucifixion]

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HERE LIETH | THE BODY OF | CORMICK KIE | RAN WHO DE | PARTED THIS | LIFE DECEMBER | 20 1774, | AGED 44 YEARS

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MAY THE LORD HAVE | MERCY ON THE SOUL OF PAT | & MARY FOY OF CALLOW | OCTOBER 1870.

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THIS STONE WAS ERECTED | BY JAMES CAVANAGH IN MEMO | BY OF HIS FATHER DENIS | CAVANAGH WHO DEPARTED | THIS LIFE MARCH THE 5 | 1786, AGED 68 YEARS
[ A headstone]

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THIS STONE WAS ERECTED | BY PAT SMITH OF LISBIN | IN MEMORY OF HIS FATHER | HUGH SMITH WHO DEPARTED THIS | LIFE 17 MAY 1813, AGED 60.

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HERE LYETH THE BODY | OF MICHAEL DUFFY DEPARTED | AUG. 12, 1814

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ERECTED BY WIDOW | GULSHENAN OF DRUMAKE IN MEMORY OF HER HUS | BAND DENIS GULSHENAN | ----- JULY 1812

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I.H.S
AVE MAIRA LAU THAU E GRATIA
AT THE WORDS | AWAKE ARISE |
ALL MANKIND SHALL BE SURPRISED?
[ A headstone]

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'The heads of angels with wings are above and below these lines'

NOW TO OBEY THE LORD'S | COMMAND, UNITE AGAIN | BOTH HEART | AND HAND

'Two large heads in profile, and four hands are beneath these'

ERECTED | BY PATT |BOYLAN OF CLINAN | DERA IN MEMORY OF HIS FATHER PATT BOYLAN | WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE | APRIL 24TH IN THE YEAR | OF OUR LORD 1885 AGED | 75 YEARS | MAY HE REST | IN PEACE | AMEN

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'The back of the cross contains a sketch in high relief of a blacksmith working at his anvil, the trade of Boylan, and on the sides are various designs'
'This curious monument is entirely the work of a blacksmith'

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