Gravestone Inscriptions-county Sligo

WGW Sligo County, Ireland

BALLYARA OLD CEMETERY COUNTY SLIGO

The following is not a full list of graveyards in County Sligo and it is not a full list of names for any graveyard. The details were collected over a number of years from graveyards and published sources but excluding those available online.
Caution: use only as a guide, may contain errors.
Jim McDonald, January 2004. culrua@iol.ie

BALLYARA OLD CEMETERY

"The Pride of Ballyara" was a horse owned by the Dr. Joe MULLARKEY of
Aclare. It is commemorated on the MULLARKEY plot in Ballyara old cemetery:

The Pride of Ballyara
Tread softly o'er this spot;
If blood can give nobility-
A noble steer was he,
His sire was blood and blood his dam
And all his pedigree."

This slab is in remembrance
of a famous thoroughbred that netted a fortune
for the Mullarkey family. In Black '47, the Famine Year, Dr. J.P. Mullarkey
purchased two cargoes of oatmeal and two cargoes of potatoes
and carried them to Drummartin - Aclare - Tubbercurry
as a gift. We shall never see his like again.

Visitors to graveyards should not clean gravestones. The best time to view headstones is at low light, early or late in the day and during winter when growth of weeds is restricted. A full record of gravestone inscriptions can be viewed in the Sligo County Library. In addition the desired information can be purchased from the Sligo Heritage & Genealogical Centre (online).

Contributor:
Jim McDonald
culrua@iol.ie

Disclaimer:there may be errors due to transcription of information from both early and late (current contributors) work.
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