Here we record some photographs of gravestones from Clogher Cathedral - Graveyard, Co Tyrone that depict coats of arms, some dating back to the seventeenth century.
The quality of the photographs are just about sufficient to link them with recordings published in 1927 in Memorials of the Dead pages 293-311 by Mr H. C. Lawlor. The drawings from Lawlor also accompany the photos. The entire recordings of Lawlor's drawings and inscriptions can be found at:
For details of the heraldry inside the Cathedral please see:
page 304
[2] Quartered arms of Moore and ? possibly for Brattan as there are Moore and Brattan gravestones together.
page 303
Gravestone beside the one with the quartered arms
page 301
This is the Josias Wallace gravestone but the arms look like those on page 300 for John Wallace?
Robert Wallace, based solely on page 300 second diagram.
Not much can be seen from the photo, this gravestone was beside the previous Wallace one and the castle has been observed. Going on page 300, it could be for John Wallace?
[4] Thompson
page 307
[5] Two Kennedy Gravestones
page 310
For details on Cornet John Kennedy coming to Ulster see:
[6] Cairnes Gravestones
[7] Wilson and Moore
There are some other gravestones recorded by Lawlor that I did not see or perhaps they were worn or covered. The reader is referred to:
There are also some gravestones with coats of arms that were not recorded by Lawlor. The book on the graveyard published by Jack Johnston 1972 may likely contains additional heraldic information. We now include a few other gravestones with coats of arms.
[8] Johnston
The inscription reads:
Here under is interred
The body of Robert John
ston Late of ?
Gentleman who departed
This life the 20th (?) Day of
April Ano Dom 1731
In the 70 year of his
(age?)
The gravestone beside is not as easy to read
The third line has Johnston late wife to
??
perhaps this lady was a sister of Robert Johnston?
as her husband's name does not look like Johnston.
[9] Gledstanes
The six lines above the coat of arms appears to end in ... 58 year of his age
Then we have the Gledstanes coat of arms.
The inscription then continues under the arms.
For a colour photo of the Gledstanes arms please see:
[10] Galbraith
Here undr inter
red the body of Cap
tain James Galbraith
of Roscavey (?) who de
parted this life the
? day of March Anno
Dom 1706 and in the
58 year of his age.
See the following link for the Galbraith arms;
[11] Clingan
A gravestone was uncovered in 2018, see the full details:
This stone with an attractive coat of arms is
a memorial to Thomas and Mary Clingan who were the children of James Clingan of
Ralessy. They died in 1763 and 1765. It was under about 5 inches of green sod
and was the middle one of three stones to the same family. It was uncovered
recently when path laying was going on close to the West door.
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