Mullagh Old Church graveyard

Mullagh Old Church of Ireland - Copy

The Ordnance Survey Memoirs for the Parish of Termoneey state that in the Mullagh Old Church graveyard
(Surveyed on 3rd May 1836) the oldest grave was dated 1748, but records no other information was given on the graves.

1

Unreadable

2

Here Lyeth the body
Of Jane ???? who died
January ye ?? 1778
Aged ?? Years
??????????????
(This is an old grave which has unfortunately deteriorated in all the most important places!
It has taken me months to get this much, although I hope to decipher more!)

3

Here lieth the body of
Easter Paul wife to
William Paul Who died
May ?? ?755?
(Again another sandstone gravestone that doesn’t want to reveal it’s secrets..
I hope to be able to recover more information from it over the next few months!)

4
I can only work out a few letters on this one . DB

The next 3 gravestones are side by side
5

Here lieth the body of
Hugh Patterson who died
March the 4th 1757
Aged 4 years

6

Here lieth the body of
James Patterson ???????

7

Here ???? Bod? Of
??????????????
D??? ?776
Y????

8

Here lieth the body of
Ann Mawhurter
Who dep this life Jan
The 12? 1807
Aged 66 years

9

Small stone (or a partially buried)
Here lieth ??????

10

Here lieth the body of
John Steele who
Dep this life Feb
11 1784 Aged 93? Years

11

Small broken stone
H??? ???? ???
Body of He??? ????
Who d???
This life
?????

12

Small sandstone stone..unreadable

13

Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
27382 Private
C. Boyd, MM
Royal Inniskilling Fus.
19th December 1917, Age 21

14

Here lie the body of Henr? ???in
Who dep this life
March ye 1 ?804?

15

Here lieth the body of
Joseph Ma[Y or W] Who
Dep this life M[arch??]
Ye 1 177[3?] A[ged] 50 Years

16
Needs work but shoud be readable

17
Unreadable

18
Unreadable.. Stone in a hedge!

19

Here lies the body of
Margrat Armstrong
Who died Iun the 12
1777 aged 43 years

20
Unreadable at this moment

21
Large flat stone believed to be Orr family Needs work

3 thoughts on “Mullagh Old Church graveyard”

  1. To Barbara Braswell and Denver Boyd: Thank you so much for transcribing and photographing graveyards. I live in Canada and am so appreciative for your acts of kindness.

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