GA-STNL-0389

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

IN MEMORIA CAROLIHENRICA FILIIUNICAI REVERENDE HENRICIET HELENAE MORGAN QUI SPIRITUM SUUAE DEO QUI DEDERAT RESIGNAVIT SEPTEMBERIS DIE OCTAVO ANNO DOMINE MDCCCXXXIV AETATIS SUAE QUINTO FUIT DOCILIS BLANDUS AMIBILIS ET PULCHERRIMUS HOC MARMER PUERI DILECTI EX AMORE DEDICAVERUNT PARENTES MAESTISSIMI FELIX ILLE HI MISERRIMI SED PROPTER SPEM CHRISTIANAM LAETATI Suffer the Little Children To Come unto Me and Forbid them not/ For such is the Kingdom of God Saith the Lord MARK X 16

Grave location
County: 
Galway
Latitude: 
53.27272663
Longitude: 
-9.0537133799738
Additional details
References: 
The Galway Weekly Advertiser. September 13th. (1834). (Obituary). "Died... At his father's house Nun's Island on the 8th instant, Charles Henry, only son of Rev. Henry Morgan aged 4 years and 10 months, after enduring with a most remarkable patience a painful illness (water on the brain) for nearly 7 months...". For other references to these Morgans see No. 183 and also Library and Heritage Project Files. Cat. No. 390. An unusual aspect of some of the late 16th and early 17th century monuments at St. Nicholas9 is the occurrence of Anglicized versions of Irish Christian and surnames. NI was often used (for N() in female names and some of the spelling used seems to have been the result of attempts to come to grips with Irish pronounciations of Irish names. Some of the Christian names which occur are non-Irish, and, despite the prohibitions under various bylaws against Irish residency in the town, (unless people were made freemen), a significant group of monuments with native names and what may be termed Gaelic Revival ornament have survived. The inscription gives one of the deceased*s trade as SHVMAKER (Shoemaker). The stone is said'to date to 1577. Drawing by Majella Brien.
People commemorated: 
Surname: 
MORGAN
Notes: 

A wall plaque of black and white marble which is set into the West wall of the Lynch Aisle. The Inc'd. Ins. is painted black and is almost completely in Latin. The quotation should be from Chapter 10, Verse 14. The same people are also commemorated on Nos. 181, 183 and 319. See also No. 11(L) which is now lost.