GA-STNL-0153

Record Date: 
23 January 2025
Graveyard: 
St Nicholas' Collegiate Church and Graveyard
Exact wording of epitaph: 

SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF LACHLAN MACLACHLAN ESQ. DIED 30 DAY OF APRIL 1849 Aged FIFTY EIGHT YEARS "I KNOW THAT MY REDEEMER LIVETH" ALSO OF ISABELLA THE BELOVED WIFE OF JAMES CAMPBELL J.P. [NEPHEW OF LACHLAN MACLACHLAN] WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE 20 OCTOBER 1860 (1880) AGED 32 YEARS "FOR IF WE BELIEVE THAT JESUS DIED AND ROSE AGAIN EVEN SO THEM ALSO WHICH SLEEP IN JESUS SHALL GOD BRING WITH HIM". THESS.IV. 14 Also of THE ABOVE JAMES CAMPBELL OF ARDMORE WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE 16 MAY 1884 AGED 64 YEARS "TO DEPART AND BE WITH CHRIST WHICH IS FAR BETTER".

Grave location
County: 
Galway
Latitude: 
53.272761388889
Longitude: 
-9.0532430555556
Additional details
References: 
Bur. Reed. Vol. 2 (1849), "Lachlan MacLachlain, abode Nun's Island, Galway, buried May 1st 1849, aged 60". The Galway Vindicator. October 20th. (1860). Death notice for Isabella, wife of James Campbell Esq. of the firm of Miller and Campbell. She died at Palmyra Crescent. Bur. Reed. Vol. 2 (1884), "James Campbell, abode Ardmore, buried May 19th 1884, St. Nicholas Churchyard, aged 62 years". See The Galway Express. May 17th. and May 24th. respectively (1884) under "Petty Sessions" and Harbour Board. (The Court and the Harbour Board meetings adjourned as tributes to James Campbell Esq. J.P. and Thomas Moore Persse Esq. J.P.). The Galwav Express. May 24th. (1884), Death, "Campbell At Ardmore, Galway, on the 16th inst., in the 63rd year of his age James Campbell J.P. deeply and deservedly regretted". The Galwav Express. Md, "Death of James Campbell Esq. J.P. (a long and detailed obituary). See also The Galway Express. July 19th. (1884) for marriage of Kathleen Elizabeth Campbell (daughter of James) to Rev. Francis O.M. Watters (ceremony at Ardmore, by special Licence). See also No. 379 for further references on Lachlan MacLachlan. ^
People commemorated: 
Surname: 
CAMPBELL and MACLACHLAN
Notes: 

A large table-tomb with a white marble top which subsided and was later straightenend by inserting a large wedge of stone on top of the original slab of limestone (which is now obscured). The original monument was also a table-tomb topped with a large Rect. R.S.. Part of the inscription reading "THESSOLONIANS IV; 14;" is the same quotation as one of those found on the added "replacement" slab, which is also a large recumbent one with an Ins. in block capitals of various sizes. The Inc'd. Ins. is drilled with circular holes to take lead lettering. Part of only twenty-one of the leaded letters survive on the inscribed surface. The Ins. on the original slab is Inc'd. only, but not leaded. A short leaded Ins. giving the maker's name "LETTOPPS (or LET HORPS?) DUBLIN" occurs on the right side of the top edge of the stone. See also No. 379, another monument (in the church) to Lachlan MacLachlan.