ME-CLVY-0104

Record Date: 
22 September 2021
Graveyard: 
Clonalvy
Exact wording of epitaph: 

Here Lieth The             Body of the Revd
 Father Patrick Curtis Parifh
Prieft Of Clunalvie, Ardcath and Pierce
Town Who Departed This Life The 11th Day
January 1743-4  Aged 86 Years

Requiescat in Pace

Memorial Type: 
Headstone
Grave location
County: 
Meath
Latitude: 
53.589111111111
Longitude: 
-6.3376
Additional details
Inscription legible: 
Yes
Number of people commemorated: 
1
People commemorated: 
Title: 
Reverend Father
Name: 
Patrick
Surname: 
Curtis
Date of death - day: 
11
Date of death - month: 
January
Date of death - year: 
1743
Age: 
86
Address: 
Parish priest of Clunalvie, Ardcath and Piercetown
Notes: 

Year of death is between 1743 and 1744 AS HEADSTONE HAS BOTH YEARS ? FOR VERIFICATION

Summary Extract from Anthony Coogan – The Diocese of Meath Ancient and Modern, Volume 1 1862

"In June 1690, James the Second presented the Rev. " Dr. Patrick Curtis to the rectories of Clonalvy, Ardcath, and Piercetown-Landy". In 1704, the Rev Patrick Curtis* was registered at Trim as " Popish priest of Ardcath and Clonalvy' . This venerable priest was ordained at Creggin, county Galway, in 1683, by Dr. Thady Keogh, bishop of Clonfert, and, at the time of the registration, lived at Haymontown. In his advanced years, the Rev. John Pentony administered the parishes of Ardcath and Piercetown for him. He died in January, 1743, and was buried in the churchyard of Clonalvy. Alongside of the western wall of the old church there is a headstone with the following inscription : “Here lieth the body of The Rev. Father PATRICK CURTIS, parish priest of Cluanalvi, Ardcath, and Pierstown, who departed this life the 11th day of January, 1743, aged 86 years”. "