Jim McDonald, January 2004. culrua@iol.ie
Ah ! why dread tyrant was it given
To thee to sink (so young) such worth in dust ?
Why, 'twas my great command from heaven
To crop the fairest flower first.
GRANGEMORE GRAVEYARD (Templeboy)
All of the names on gravestones:
BURKE, BURN, BURNS, CAVANAGH, COGANS, COGGANS, COSGRAVE, DOHERTY, FARRY, FEENY, FINAN, FINNEGAN, FLANELY, FLATELY, FLYNN, GILGAN, GILMORE, GOLDEN, HEALY, HILLAS, KEAVNEY, KENNEDY, KERRIGAN, KOLCULLEN, LOOBY, LYNOTT, MAYE, McCOAN, McCOURTY, McDERMOTT, McDONALD, McDONNELL, McGOVERN, McGOWAN, McGUIRE, McHALE, MEEHAN, MELVIN, MILTON, MITCHELL, MOFFATT, O'TOOLE, REDICAN, RUSHE, SEXTON, SHANNON, TEMPANY, WHYTE.
[BURNS and FARY]
Here lie Tom and his wife Mary,
His Surname BURNS, her's was FARY;
She modest was and to strangers good,
He-Greek and Latin understood.
As they shared freely what was given
Pray that their souls may rest in heaven.