Ashbourne/killeglan(d) graveyard

goldenwonder

has anyone any idea of who is buried in the old ashbourne graveyard..
i went to see it last week to have a look at it and i could just make out Plunkett 1727. the rest was faded and in latin. it is a grave of interest as it was said from school that it was an entrance to passageways under ashbourne. its a stone slab grave.
it also has a skull and cross bones etched into the bottom of the slab
a bit like this except a mirror
http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:Ye2T2IcmfbsJqM:http://www.oneworldoneplanet.net/worldtravel/images/skull_and_crossbones_with_moss.jpg

cant find anything really on the net

interesting though

Lord ButterSlip

If you could get a picture of the full slab up here it would be better.

Dionysus

goldenwonder wrote: »

has anyone any idea of who is buried in the old ashbourne graveyard..
i went to see it last week to have a look at it and i could just make out Plunkett 1727. the rest was faded and in latin. it is a grave of interest as it was said from school that it was an entrance to passageways under ashbourne. its a stone slab grave.
it also has a skull and cross bones etched into the bottom of the slab
a bit like this except a mirror
http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:Ye2T2IcmfbsJqM:http://www.oneworldoneplanet.net/worldtravel/images/skull_and_crossbones_with_moss.jpg

cant find anything really on the net

interesting though

I surmise - indeed, I'd be quite certain - that if it is in Latin it is dealing with members of the Seagrave (Sedgrave/Segrave) family, lords of Killeglan until overthrown sometime after the Cromwellian Conquest in 1649. Along with the Barnwalls (de Barneval/Barnewelll/Barnwell) of Crickstown they were the most powerful family in this part of Meath.

goldenwonder

the carving is kinda like this except looking the other way

only similar one i could find on the net