The arms of Clogher Diocese over the gate
The present St Macartan's Cathedral at Clogher was built in 1744.
For details of some of the heraldry from the graveyard please see:
The three towers over the doorway mark the two diocesan cathedrals, St Macartan's Cathedral, Cloogher and St Macartin's Cathedral, Enniskillen with a single Dean and Chapter between them. These arms which were borne for centuries with no known authority were confirmed to the Dean and Chapter of the Cathedral Church of Clogher in 2005.
The diocesan arms of Clogher can be seen on the pulpit as well.
Other Heraldry on the Cathedral Monuments
The Gledstanes window was erected by Moutray Gledstances in memory of his uncle Ambrose Upton Gledstanes and his wife Cecilia Hornidge. Ambrose's grandmother, Margaret Gledstanes married Ambrose Upton, and thus he adopted the surname of Gledstanes. Thus the quartered arms of Gledstanes and Upton (cross molines) is on the left and these impale the arms of Hornidge.
The monument to John William Ellison Macartney of Clogher Park who died in 1904 contains the quartered arms of Macartney (Buck) and Ellison (a chevron between three eagle's heads).
The monument to John Benjamin Story of Corick (d. 1926) and of his wife Blanche Christobel (d. 1930) contains the Story coat of arms, crest and motto. He was Hon. Surg. Oculist to his Majesty and President of the Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland and of the British Ophthalmological Society
The Porter Monument was erected in memory of Bishop John Porter (1751-1819)
The monument contains his coat of arms, mitre, episcopal staff and key along with the inscription
Sacred to the Memory of the Right Reverend John Porter, D.D., formerly Professor of Hebrew in the University of Cambridge and late Lord Bishop of this Diocese, who died on the 27th of July, 1819, in the 68th year of his age, and 45th of his ministry. Deeply versed in sacred learning, he united the scholar with the gentleman. Firm in his trust and inflexibly attached to truth, in his intercourse with the world he feared God more than man and in every situation of life, in which the Providence of God placed him he sustained the conduct and character of a righteous man. This monument is erected by his afflicted family in testimony of their affection and his worth.
The impaled arms of Clogher (Diocese) and Porter (three bells)
John Garnett (1707/8-1782) was the Bishop of Clogher/
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The Garnett arms are given as: azure, three griffin's heads erased or.
The quartered arms of Taylor and Beresford for Abraham Beresford Taylor
The crest William Brooksbank Garnett
The crest of Charles F. Moutray
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