WI-GLDA-X-0015

Record Date: 
26 August 2015
Graveyard: 
Glendalough
Exact wording of epitaph: 

TO THE AFFECTIONATE MEMORY

OF

REVD EDWARD ROWAN

BORN AT DUNGARVAN 7th APRIL 1830

DIED 28th SEPTEMBER 1893,

WHO WAS PARISH PRIEST OF BLACKDITCHES

FOR NINETEEN YEARS.

THIS CROSS IS ERECTED BY

THE PARISHIONERS OF

ROUNDWOOD & GLENDALOUGH

AMONGST WHOM HE LABOURED

FOR ELEVEN YEARS AS CURATE

HE WAS A DEVOTED PRIEST

A STERLING PATRIOT

AND A TRUE FRIEND TO THE POOR

THUS ENDEARING HIMSELF TO ALL HIS PEOPLE 

BY HIS NOBLE QUALITIES

AND GENTLE DISPOSITION

HIS REMAINS ARE INTERRED

IN THIS CEMETERY

IN THE INTERIOR OF THE RUINED ORATORY

REQUIESCAT IN PACE.

Memorial Type: 
Celtic Cross
Grave location
County: 
Wicklow
Latitude: 
53.010792544611
Longitude: 
-6.3266490900278
Additional details
Stonecutter/monumental sculptor: 
Fitzpatrick & Sons
Number of people commemorated: 
1
People commemorated: 
Title: 
Reverend
Name: 
Edward
Surname: 
Rowan
Date of birth - day: 
7
Date of birth - month: 
April
Date of birth - year: 
1830
Date of death - day: 
28
Date of death - month: 
September
Date of death - year: 
1893
Age: 
63
Address: 
Dungarvan
Notes: 

From: Dungarvan

Parish Priest in: Blackditches