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13:06 Apr 18, 2007 |
Latin to English translations [PRO] Other / tomb inscription | |||||||
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parish Explanation: for what it's worth, I think you are right, based on: http://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache:ZhRGuZvc7vIJ:www.irishm... A mural slab inserted in the chapel-yard wall has: "Sacred to the memory of the Rev. Philip Purcell, late indefatigable Pastor of this Parish, who, from the liberal donations of its union, built and ornamented this chapel, in the year 1791, on ground cheerfully bestowed by John Burke O'Flaherty Esqr. May the Lord have mercy on his soul. Amen." RATHDOWNEY - There was no chapel whatever in the town of Rathdowney from the Reformation to the year 1820. For a few years preceding the latter date, however, public Mass was celebrated, on Sundays, in the town or its neighbourhood, especially in a large, waste house which stood a few hundred yards from the town, on the right of the road to Lavally, in a field now belonging to John Dunne. In the end of 1817 a 31 years' lease of the site of the present chapel of Rathdowney was secured by the principal Catholic inhabitants of the town. In the Spring of 1818 the chapel was commenced, and on Christmas Day, 1820, the Holy Mass was offered up within it for the first time. In 1867 it was repaired by Dr. Lynch, who also added, at the same time, the sanctuary, sacristy and belltower. These improvements are commemorated on a small slab over the front entrance door, inscribed:- "Hanc ecclesiam jampridem collabentem restauravit & ornavit Adm. Revdus. G. Lynch, nujusce paraeciae Pastor, Anno Salutis MDCCCLXVII." |
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