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McGough
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I copied the first twenty-two gravestone inscriptions in eight Catholic cemeteries in county Monaghan in September 1998. Ann McGeough Harney sent me two more inscriptions from a ninth cemetery. The cemeteries are in the civil parishes of Aghnamullen, Ballybay, Clontibret, Donaghmoyne and Muckno. I have designated the nine cemeteries by the letters A through I. Michelle McGoff had published six additional inscriptions from Gravestones in Old St. Patrick's Cemetery, Broomfield, county Monaghan on her now-inactive website. The names from these inscriptions are listed under cemetery of the Donaghmoyne Parish Church in the townland of Taplagh (cemetery F), and are included in the index of names set out below.
In the summer of 2001, I revisited some of the cemeteries, and found both revised gravestones and new ones. I visited two new cemeteries, J and K in the table of contents. I have also added a "Miscellaneous" section in which I record notes from other sources of McGough gravestones in Ireland.
Much more work can be done. For example, John O'Donovan in a letter of May 31, 1835, published on Traynor's website under The McKenna Connection, reports on his visit to "the old Church of Errigal" in the parish of Errigal Truagh (perhaps in the townland of Drumbristan). After listing the gravestones of the McKennas and Traynors, which are the most numerous, he says:
"Next to the Treners and McKennas, the most numerous families interred in the old Church of Errigal are:- 1. Conolly. 2. McKaghey, among whom the Christian name Ardel (Ardghal) appears. 3. Conlan, with a curious coat of arm. 4. Slevin 5. McCambel (Mac Cathmhaoil). 6. McElmeel (Mac Geiolla Mhaoll) in crowds. 7. Mac Avicar (Aviker). 8. Mac Geough."
As I walked through the cemeteries, I tried to find all inscriptions that included the name McGough or McGeough. Because of deterioration, some of the gravestones were illegible. I did not check written burial records of a cemetery. I make no representation, therefore, that I found all gravestones that bear the names McGough or McGeough, or that this is a complete list of all the McGoughs or McGeoughs buried in the cemeteries that I checked.
The weather was usually wet and windy. The rain blurred the ink of some of my notes. I have, however, compared my notes with photographs I took of many of the stones. I have tried to reproduce the wording, spelling, errors, and line breaks on the stones. I did not correct spelling mistakes. For example, in gravestone #1, I reproduced REQUIESCANT IN PACE as it is engraved, even though I had originally assumed the N in requiescant was a mistake. This is a good example of why an unenlightened editor, such as myself, should not attempt to correct perceived mistakes of the engraver. On revisiting my high school Latin, I discovered that requiescant was not a mistake, but rather the correct plural form of requiescat. "Requiescat in pace" means may he or she rest in peace. "Requiescant in pace" means may they rest in peace. Since the gravestone commemorates the lives of Hugh and Ellen McGough and their son Patrick, use of the plural form is right and my initial reaction was wrong.
Several of the gravestones described below are replacements of earlier stones, often with the addition of names of later decedents.
The civil parish of Aghnamullen is divided into the Catholic parishes of Aughnamullen East (cemeteries A and B) and Aughnamullen West (C). The civil parish of Ballybay consists of roughly the southern half of the Catholic parish of Tullycorbet and two townlands from the Catholic parish of Aughnamullen East, Agheralane and Corbrack. Twenty-two townlands that form the southeastern tip of the civil parish of Clontibret are in the Catholic parish of Muckno, including the contiguous townlands of Cornalough, Formil, and Mullaghanee, where the tithe applotment books for 1830 show three listings for Hugh McGeough and two listings for Mary McGough. See McGoughs, McGeoughs, and McGeoghs in Ireland in the 1820–30s and 1850–60s: By County, Parish, and Townland, lines # 311, 326–8. Griffith's Valuation shows an Andrew McGeough (#331) in Mullaghanee in 1860. Thirty-three townlands that form the southeastern quarter of the civil parish of Donaghmoyne are in the Catholic parish of Inniskeen. These include Mullaghunshinagh, where the tithe applotment books show three McGoughs in 1823 and Griffith's Valuation shows a McGeogh in 1861; and Shancobane, where the tithe applotment books show three McGoughs in 1823 (line #364–371).
Catholic Parishes in Ireland often have more than one active church or chapel serving different chapel districts with the parish. For example, in Muckno Parish, there are cemeteries adjoining active churches in the towns of Oram (G) and Castleblayney (H). In the parish of Aughnamullen West, I checked the cemetery in the townland of Lisdrumcleve near the town of Latton (St. Mary's), but did not get to the church in the townland of Drumcunnion. Drumcunnion was checked by Ann McGeough Harney. In the parish of Aughnamullen East, I checked two active churches with adjoining cemeteries, which I have designated as north (A) (St. Mary's of Carrickatee) and south (B) (Sacred Heart at Lough Egish), which are respectively near Annahaia and Tullynamalra Cross Road in the townland of Aghmakerr. I covered only one active church in the parish of Donaghmoyne, and did not check the churches in the townlands of Lisdoonan and Cordrummans Lower.
After I published the original version of these notes, Ann (McGeough) Harney, author of the excellent McGeough website, sent me two inscriptions from the graveyard in the parish of Aughnamullen West adjoining Bawn Chapel (St. Patrick's, 1833) in the townland of Drumcunnion. She points out that a Catholic school operated in connection with the chapel is across the road from the chapel and cemetery and is in the townland of Lisinisky. I added this cemetery to my list as (I), and the inscriptions as #23 and #24. Michelle McGoff published on her now-inactive website five additional McGeough inscriptions from Gravestones in Old St. Patrick's Cemetery, Broomfield, county Monaghan. The names are listed under F1 through F5.
Good maps that superimpose the boundaries of the townlands and Catholic parishes in the Diocese of Clogher upon the Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland 1:50 000 topographical map (sheet 28) can be found in Landscapes of South Ulster: A Parish Atlas of the Diocese of Clogher, by Patrick J. Duffy, published in 1993 by The Institute of Irish Studies of the Queens University of Belfast in association with the Clogher Historical Society. In searching for cemeteries, the symbols on these meticulously constructed maps are helpful: a cross on top of a square indicates a Catholic church; a cross on top of a circle indicates a Church of Ireland; a small cross standing alone represents a Presbyterian church; and a cross within a circle represents a Methodist church. A representation of two of these maps, for the Catholic parishes of Aughnamullen West and East, will be found in McGoughs, McGeoughs, and McGeoghs in the Civil Parish of Aghnamullen.
These gravestone inscriptions support the conclusion that I have reached from examining government, church, and estate records: the names McGough and McGeough were used interchangeably within the same family, and often by the same person, in Ireland in the 19th century. For example, both surnames appear on stone #4. On #19, Patrick McGeough is listed as a "beloved friend" of Terence and Eliabeth (sic) McGough. All are from Oram, although Patrick resided in Castleblayney when he died. The three are interred in the same plot. Gravestone #1 is a memorial to Hugh McGough; #2 names Hugh McGeough. Both are probably from Cortaghart. The stones are next to each other and in the same family plot.
An alphabetical summary of the names and data on the gravestones precedes the copies of the inscriptions. This index includes surnames other than McGough or McGeough that appear on a gravestone. Many of the gravestones give neither the age at death nor the birth date. Sometimes even the date of death is not shown. The surnames of children, grandchildren, or spouses that are used in the index are sometimes the result of an educated guess. The place of residence at the time of death is not necessarily the same as the place named in the inscription, but unless I have other information, I have assumed they are the same.
If the spelling of a townland on the gravestone differs from the accepted form I have spelled the townland in the index as it appears on the gravestone, but noted the difference after the copy of the inscription. For example, Drumbo on gravestone #12 refers to the townland now usually called Drumbeo, but I refer to it as Drumbo in the index.
The Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI) has published a wealth of information on Irish historical records, including a Guide to Gravestone Inscriptions and Understanding the Stones.
Here is a list of the names on the gravestones that I copied:
Even though modern maps show St. Mary's chapel in the catholic parish of Aughnamullen east as located in the townland of Annahaia, it was known as St. Mary's of Carrickatee, the adjoining townland. The chapel was rebuilt in 1893. An excerpt, Churches of Aughnamullen East, from a 1921 book, was sent to me by Ann McGeough Harney, says:
"Here, as in the other parishes throughout the diocese, the people had to pass through the long night of persecution without a church wherein to worship God. They heard Mass and received instruction in the open air with the arc of heaven their only canopy. They were a noble people; men of a martyr spirit, patient, enduring and self-sacrificing; meeting persecution as the rock meets the swelling wave, and filled heart and soul with the living, animating faith of the early Christians.
"When about the middle of the eighteenth century domestic troubles in England prompted her to placate the Catholics of Ireland by tacitly permitting the erection of simple little chapels, without cross or belfry, through the country, these brave people eagerly availed of the opportunity of building a church. Their resources and their ideas of ecclesiastical architecture were equally limited, and it was a simple and rude structure they erected; but it was an inestimable blessing to them to have any shelter under which to practice their devotions and pray for their emancipation. For a century successive pastors repaired and renovated it and hoped for happier days, when it would be replaced by a church better adapted to the service of God.
[The paragraph on Sacred Heart Church at Lough Egish is set out under cemetery B, below.]
ST. MARY'S CHURCH, CARRICKATEE
"The old church at Carrickatee dated from the end of the eighteenth century. Its walls and roof, supported by many props, had long been an eyesore to the Catholic population and a danger to worshippers, when the Rev. Eugene M'Kenna, P.P., after completing the Church of the Sacred Heart, undertook to replace it with the present beautiful church. St. Mary's, like the parish church, is cruciform in plan, consisting of a nave, chancel and transepts, and the walls in the exterior are well cemented.
"The church is provided with three galleries, one in the nave and one in each of the transepts, thus reducing the dimensions of the building to the smallest possible space that would accommodate the congregation. The passages are laid in ornamental tiles, and the furniture, including benches and confessionals, is in pitch pine, solid, substantial and comfortable. The altar, in marble, is of chaste design. It is flanked with statues of the Sacred 20 Heart and Blessed Virgin Mary, on marble pedestals.
"The church is well lighted, having four windows in each of the transepts, five in the nave, and a very fine one in the Chancel. The total cost was A3,000. The Church was solemnly dedicated to the service of God by the Most Rev. Dr. Owens, on Rosary Sunday, October 4th 1893. The preacher on the occasion was the Very Rev. Andrew MacArdle, S.J."
The Ordnance Survey Memoirs of Ireland (Volume Forty): Counties of South Ulster 1834–8, published in 1998 by The Institute of Irish Studies, The Queens University of Belfast, in a section written in 1835, at page 71, refers to the "Annaghhaghey chapel [that] contains accommodation for 600 persons ... [a] plain building with accommodations for 600 persons." Annaghhaghey is the townland now known as Annahaia and the chapel described in the Memoirs is the old church at Carrickatee at which the James McGough, whose name is on gravestone #3 below, served Mass every day for seven years when he was a boy living in Carrickatee. See McGoughs, McGeoughs, and McGeoghs in the Civil Parish of Aghnamullen under the heading Shantonagh Rectangle.
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IN MEMORY
OF
HUGH McGOUGH
CORTAGHART
WHO DIED 15TH AUGUST 1877
ALSO OF HIS SON
PATRICK McGOUGH
OF CREEVE
WHO DIED 2ND JUNE 1898
AND ELLEN McGOUGH
CORTAGHART
WHO DIED 7TH JANUARY 1903
REQUIESCANT IN PACE
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When I revisited this site in the summer of 2001, this stone and grave site had been refurbished, and these lines had been added:
PATRICK MC GEOUGH
CARRICKALDRA
WHO DIED 26TH DECEMBER 1965,
AGED 64 YEARSHIS WIFE ROSE,
WHO DIED 13TH FEBRUARY 2000.
AGED 78 YEARS
Notice that this gravestone can now be added to those where the surname is spelled both McGough and McGeough on the same stone.
On a gravestone on an adjoining plot is this inscription:
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OF YOUR CHARITY PRAY FOR THE HAPPY
REPOSE OF THE SOUL OF
JOHN Mc GEOUGH
LATE OF CORTAGHART
WHO DIED ON 30TH JULY 1944,
AND ALSO FOR THE REPOSE
OF THE SOULS OF HIS
BROTHERS HUGH AND OWEN
AND HIS SISTER KATE.
ALSO JAMES KERR
WHO DIED 30TH NOV 1991
AGED 72 YEARS
R.I.P.
McGEOUGH
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On my revisit in the summer of 2001, there was a new gravestone:
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IN LOVING MEMORY
Of
THE
McGEOUGH FAMILY,
CORTAGHART
REST IN PEACE
McGEOUGH
This church is known as the Church of the Sacred Heart at Lough Egish. Here is an excerpt from the longer quotation from Churches of Aughnamullen East cited under cemetery A, above:
"On the Rev. Eugene M'Kenna devolved the labour and the pleasure of providing such a church. The old church at Lough Egish was in the very last stage of usefulness in the year 1896, when, with the cordial approval of the Bishop and the co-operation of the parishioners, he undertook the erection of the CHURCH OF THE SACRED HEART. This is a handsome and imposing edifice, cruciform in design, and measures 86 ft. 0 in. x 67 ft. 0 in. Apart from the Altar, Stations of the Cross and bell, which were the gifts of local benefactors, the Church cost A31,800. The people provided, free of cost, the rough material and gave much gratuitous labour. The architect was Mr. Thomas Elliot, Enniskillen, and the builder, Mr. John Reid, Enniskillen."
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IN LOVING MEMORY OF
JAMES McGOUGH, SHANTONAGH
DIED NOV 1908
HIS WIFE MARY, DIED OCT 1909.
THEIR CHILDREN
JOSEPH, DIED MARCH 1906.
JAMES, DIED FEB 1916.
MARY, DIED JAN 1917.
THOMAS, DIED FEB 1930.
ROSE, DIED OCT 1932.
PATRICK, DIED JAN 1936.
PETER, DIED NOV 1943.
HIS WIFE ALICE, DIED NOV,1953,
BERNARD, DIED JAN, 1963.
CATHERINE, DIED 1969. ALSO—
GRANDCHILDREN,
JAMES, DIED 1968.
MARY E. DIED 30 Jan.1984
PETER BRADY
DIED 21 NOV.1977 R. I. P.
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The Latton chapel in the Catholic parish of Aughnamullen West dates from the 1820s. Landscapes of South Ulster: A Parish Atlas of the Diocese of Clogher, Patrick J. Duffy, at page 88.
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ERECTED
to the memory of the late John
Mc Gough of Lisgillen by his
affectionate sons. He departed this
life September 20th 1856, aged 56 years.
Also their brother Patrick who departed
this life November 26, 1846, aged 24 years.
Mary Ellen McGeough
died 25th Feb., 1948.
Her Husband Joseph
died 29 Jany. 1949.
And their son Tommie
died 19 July 1986.
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This is an example of a gravestone that contains both the McGough and McGeough
spellings.
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IHS
IN LOVING MEMORY OF
THOMAS Mc GEOUGH, CORNEEN.
DIED 13TH FEB. 1963 AGED 82.
HIS WIFE KATIE
DIED 23RD MARCH 1991 AGED 94.
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The proper name of the townland is Cormeen.
In their book published in September of 1999, At the Ford of the Birches: The History of Ballybay, its People and Vicinity, James H. Murnane and Peadar Murnane publishes gravestone inscriptions in Catholic cemeteries in the civil parish of Ballybay. The five inscriptions below are the only McGeough inscriptions reported in the book. The history of St. Patrick's Church in the town of Ballybay is described at page 62 through 64.
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PRAY FOR THE SOUL OF
BERNARD McGEOUGH, BALLYBAY
WHO DIED 3RD FEBRUARY 1936
AGED 76 YEARS
AND HIS WIFE ROSE A. Mc GEOUGH
WHO DIED 20TH NOVEMBER 1947
AND THEIR DAUGHTER SUSAN BRIGID
WHO DIED 17TH JUNE 1977
R. I. P.
* * *
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IN LOVING MEMORY
OF
PATRICK Mc GEOUGH, MAIN ST.
DIED 10TH AUGUST 1949.
BRIDGET McGEOUGH
DIED 2ND JANUARY 1963.
THEIR SON PETER,
DIED 24TH DECEMBER 1971.
JACK BOYLAN,
DIED 23RD MAR. 1986.
R. I. P.
* * *
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In Loving Memory of
FRANCIS McGEOUGH
ANNANIECE
DIED 25TH JUNE 1937
R.I.P.
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The modern spelling of the townland is Annaneese.
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IN LOVING MEMORY OF
FRANCIS Mc GEOUGH,
MAIN STREET
DIED 14TH DEC. 1955
AND HIS WIFE MARY ELIZABETH
DIED 3RD APRIL 1969
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IN LOVING MEMORY OF OUR PARENTS
MURTY Mc GEOUGH
DIED 27TH DEC. 1926
AND MARY J. Mc GEOUGH
DIED 28TH DEC. 1958
ALSO EDWARD DUFFY
R. I. P.
ERECTED BY THEIR FAMILY
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SR. M. BERNARD McGEOUGH
15 OCT. 1967
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The gravestone of Sister Mary Bernard is in a separate enclosure in which several
sisters of the Order of the Sacred Heart are buried.
The townland of Tullybuck is immediately west of the townland of Lisglassan, and about a kilometer northwest on highway N2 of the village of Clontibret as shown on modern maps at the intersection of N2 and R184. "The Mass garden in Lisglassan was replaced by Clontibret church at Tullybuck in 1859." Landscapes of South Ulster: A Parish Atlas of the Diocese of Clogher, by Patrick J. Duffy, page 84.
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PRAY FOR THE SOUL
OF
BRIDGET Mc GEOUGH
DRUMBO
WHO DIED 14TH JAN.1913, AGED 75 YEARS
ALSO HER SON THOMAS
WHO DIED 20TH NOV. 1887, AGED 21 YEARS.
AND HER HUSBAND BERNARD McGEOUGH
WHO DIED 14TH APRIL 1914, AGED 81 YEARS
ALSO BERNARD McGEOUGH
WHO DIED 23RD AUG. 1960 AGED 72 YEARS
HIS WIFE MARY ANNE,
WHO DIED 6TH AUG. 1976 AGED 83 YEARS
THEIR SON HENRY
WHO DIED 5TH NOV. 1990 AGED 72 YEARS
ALSO HIS BROTHER FRANCIS,
WHO DIED 18TH JULY 1994.
R. I. P.
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"Drumbo" is almost certainly the townland of Drumbeo in the civil parish of Clontibret.
The gravestones inscriptions beginning with my number 13 below are from the active St. Patrick's Catholic church in the townland of Taplagh, near Broomfield, parish of Donaghmoyne, county Monaghan. Michelle McGoff places these stones at the "Church of St. Michael and St. Victor, Tullymackilmartin." In the same area is Old St. Patrick's Cemetery which lies around the Old St. Patrick's Church, which existed in Broomfield from 1801 to 1898. The ruins of the foundation of the church still exist. Michelle McGoff, in her now inactive website IrishMcGoff.com, published additional McGeough inscriptions under Gravestones in Old St. Patrick's Cemetery Broomfield, county Monaghan. I did not go into the Old St. Patrick's cemetery, but have included the names that appear on the gravestone inscriptions collected by Michelle McGoff below my numbered tombstone 16.
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MERCY
JESUS
MERCY
ERECTED BY OWEN McGOUGH
OF
CHRISTCHURCH, NEW ZEALAND
IN MEMORY OF HIS FATHER
HENRY McGOUGH, OF KILNACRANFY
WHO DIED 25TH APRIL 1872. AGED 65 YEARS
AND OF HIS MOTHER
ANNE McGOUGH
WHO DIED 12 MAY 1901 AGED 82 YEARS
REQUIESCAT IN PACE
McGOUGH
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[This is the Henry McGeough that the FamilySearch website shows married Anne McGinn in the townland of Drumharriff, parish of Donaghmoyne, in about 1842. The townland of Kilnacranfy is less than a mile west of Drumharriff. Between is the townland of Dian. See gravestone #16]
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IN LOVING MEMORY OF
JAMES McGEOUGH,
KILNACRANFY.
DIED 24TH NOV. 1979.
HIS WIFE CATHERINE,
DIED 6TH DEC. 1981
R.I.P.
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IN
LOVING MEMORY OF
PATRICK McGEOUGH
TONEVELLIDA
DIED 4TH JUNE 1974
AND HIS WIFE SARAH
DIED 13TH AUG. 1974
R. I. P.
McGEOUGH
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The modern spelling of the townland is Tonyellida.
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In Loving Memory of
JACK McGEOUGH, DIAN
DIED 15TH OCT 1968, AGED 68
HIS WIFE KATIE,
DIED 22ND MARCH 1996 AGED 85
McGEOUGH
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I missed the nearby Old St. Patrick's cemetery. Michelle McGoff was kind enough to give me a description of where it is:
"Let's say you're looking at the front of the Church (St. Pat's in Broomfield). To the front of you is the church, directly behind you is the 'new' cemetery and approximately 50 feet to your left there is a road. You would walk down the road with the church on your right hand side for about 150 feet. On your right hand side there is a hedge of bushes and right as they start there is a little opening with steps. You walk up the 3 or 4 steps up the hill and there is an old cemetery with grass high to your thighs—with some paths throughout (but not many). It is a very old cemetery (probably started about 1800) but there were just a few very new graves there. Actually the only brand new ones that I saw were the ones for my family—Patrick McGeough just died in 1998 (he was 79)...and I believe they buried him on top of the other 10 people there too. The grave must have been ancient. They bury most everyone at the new cemetery."
The inscription on the six stones found by Michelle McGoff were on her now-inactive website at Gravestones in Old St. Patrick's Cemetery Broomfield, county Monaghan. For easy reference, I list the names below and include them in the index above.
F1: Frank McGeough, Knockreagh, died 12 Dec. 1960. His wife Bridget, died 24 Aug. 1964. Their son Pat, died 21 July 1998.
F2: The McGeough families of Keendraboys (Keenaraboy) and Knockreagh.
F3: Edward McGeough, Lisnafinelly, died 22 Dec. 1951. His Wife Katie, died 10 May 1995
F4: Patrick McGeough, Lisnafinelly, of Broomfield, who died 2 November 1928. His wife Bridget, who died 17 April 1936. His daughter Bridget, who died 27 March 1911. His son Owen, who died on the 10 November 1926. His daughter Annie, who died 2 January 1956.
F5: Bridget Morris, Drumlurg, died 13 Feb 1944. Annie McEneaney (nee Annie McGough), Shancobane, Inniskeen, died 31 March 1969
F6: Michael Callaghan, Derryisland, died 3 February 1901, age 61, and his beloved wife, Bridget Callaghan (nee McGeough), died 7 December 1901, age 56. (Derryisland is a townland in the Catholic and civil parish of Clontibret. The reference may be to Derryilan. The townland to the immediate west of Keeneraboy and Knockreagh Upper in Donaghmoyne is shown on modern maps as "Derryilan or Knocknamullagh.")
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IN LOVING MEMORY
OF
ARTHUR McGEOUGH, ORAM
DIED 22ND MAY 1966, AGED 75.
HIS WIFE BRIDGET,
DIED 1ST DEC. 1983, AGED 90.R.I.P.
McGEOUGH
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IHS Have pity on me. Have pity on me,
at least you my friend, for the
hand of the Lord has smitten me.
Job. 19 c 21 v.Of your charity pray for the soul
of Edward McGough whose remains
are interred in these grounds.
* * *
19 PRAY FOR THE SOULS
OF
TERENCE McGOUGH, OF ORAM
WHO DIED MAY 8TH 1886,
AND HIS WIFE ELIABETH McGOUGH
WHO DIED JULY 17TH 1891.
AND THEIR BELOVED FRIEND,
PATRICK McGEOUGH, ORAM
AND LAUREL HILL PLACE C.BLAYNEY
WHO DIED 29th JUNE 1990
AGED 89 YEARSR.I.P
McGOUGH
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The last gravestone is another example of the McGough and McGeough names appearing
on the same stone. The date of death of Patrick McGeough is shown as June 29,
1990, but the correct date may be 1890. Beloved friends seldom die 100 years
apart from each other.
20 ERECTED BY BRIDGET MARY McGOUGH
OF GLASGOW
TO THE MEMORY OF HER SISTER ANNE
DIED 2ND DEC. 1938, AGED 46 YEARS
AND HER BROTHER THOMAS
DIED 30TH MARCH 1928, AGED 36 YEARS
ALSO HER BROTHER PATRICK
DIED 6TH OCTOBER 1916, AGED 31 YEARS
AND BRIDGET MARY
DIED 2ND MARCH 1956, AGED 85 YEARSOUR LADY OF LOURDES PRAY FOR THEM
* * *
21 IN LOVING MEMORY
OF
JAMES McGEOUGH
MARKET SQUARE CASTLEBLAYNEY
DIED 6TH JULY 1958
HIS WIFE MARY BRIDGET
DIED 11TH AUG. 1974
THEIR SON PATRICK
DIED 1ST OCT. 1994
R.I.P.
SACRED HEART OF JESUS HAVE MERCY
McGEOUGH
* * *
22 IN LOVING MEMORY OF
THE McGEOUGH FAMILYS
FORMILL
WHO ARE INTERRED HERER.I.P.
McGEOUGH
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In Landscapes of South Ulster: A Parish Atlas of the Diocese of Clogher, Patrick J. Duffy says: "Bawn chapel was built in 1833 on a site in Drumcunnion obtained from Captain Tennison" (page 88). Ann (McGeough) Harney sent me two inscriptions from this cemetery. She points out that a Catholic school operated in connection with the chapel is across the road in the townland of Lisinisky. Ann furnished me the text of the inscriptions without formatting, so I have made a guess as to the line spacing and capitalization.
23 In loving memory of
John McGeough, Lisiniskey
died 4th October 1970.
His wife Margaret died 4th February 1980.
Their son Eugene died 12th April 1993.
Erected by the McGeough Family
24
In loving memory of
died 10th Jan 1958.
And other family members.
His wife Mary Anne died 24th June 1987.
J. Inniskeen Parish, St. Mary's Church in the Town of Inniskeen.
This is the cemetery in which Patrick Kavanagh is buried. Michelle McGoff has published some of these same gravestones on her excellent website (now inactive) under the title St. Mary's Church & Graveyard, Inniskeen—McGeough Gravestones. The inscriptions below are based on my notes, and there are some slight differences from hers. I made a few corrections to my notes because her version is more probably correct than mine. The main difference is in #25, where I am sure the first Peter McGough is spelled differently than the following Peter McGeough on the same stone. Also, numbers 30, 31, and 32 are not on her website. The latter two of these are new, and were surely erected after her visit to the cemetery and before my visit in July, 2001. The modern spelling of the towland of Drumcay, which appears on gravestones #25 and 29, is Drumcah.
25 ERECTED BY
PETER McGOUGH, DRUMCAY
IN LOVING MEMORY OF HIS SON
PETER WHO DIED APRIL 10th 1906.
ALSO HIS DAUGHTERS
KATIE WHO DIED MAY 12th, 1906.
MARY WHO DIED NOVr 26th 1918.
PETER McGEOUGH,
DIED 18TH JUNE 1930.HIS WIFE CATHERINE,
DIED 31ST JAN. 1943.THEIR SON JAMES
DIED 7TH JULY 1952
HIS SON THOMAS DIED 19TH DEC 1976 AUST.
RIP
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IN
LOVING MEMORY
OF
THOMAS MCGOUGH
SHANCOBANE
DIED 25TH JANY 1935, AGED 92 YEARS
AND HIS WIFE MARY MCGOUGH
DIED 25TH OCT 1929, AGED 70 YEARS
ALSO HIS SISTER
CATHERINE MCGOUGH
DIED 5TH JULY 1918, AGED 75 YEARS
ALSO PATRICK MCGOUGH
DIED 12TH JUNE 1948, AGED 52 YEARS
OWEN MCGOUGH, SHANCOBANE
DIED 15TH AUG 1961
CATHERINE MCGOUGH, SHANCOBANE
DIED 22ND MARCH 1963
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IN
LOVING MEMORY
OF THOMAS MCGOUGH
SHANCOBANE
DIED 12TH NOV 1965
HIS SISTER BRIDGET MCGOUGH
DIED 9TH JAN. 1972
THEIR SISTER MARY MCQUILLAN
DRUMLUSTY
DIED 4TH JAN 1978
ALSO JAMES MCGOUGH
LATE OF SHANCOBANE
DIED 26TH SEPT 1984
AND HIS BROTHER PETER
DIED 12TH NOV 1986RIP
McGOUGH
28
IN LOVING MEMORY
OF
ROSE MCGEOUGH
BALLYKELLY
DIED 11TH FEB 1928
AGED 68 YEARS
HER HUSBAND EDWARD
DIED 15TH NOV. 1959
AGED 93 YEARS.
THEIR SON
EDWARD MCGEOUGH
DIED 15TH FEB. 1963RIP
†
McGEOUGH
29 IN
LOVING MEMORY OF
THOMAS MCGEOUGH
DRUMCAY
DIED 4TH SEP. 1961
AGED 34 YEARS
HIS MOTHER AGNES
DIED 11TH FEB 1976. AGED 79 YEARS
R.I.P.
ERECTED BY HIS LOVING MOTHER
MCGEOUGH
30 In Memory
of
JAMES McGEOUGH
Who Died 19th June 1934[The rest of the inscription is illegible.]
31
IN LOVING MEMORY
OF
EDWARD McGEOUGH
Callanberg.
Died 25th Feb. 1999, Aged 71 Yrs.Sadly Missed by His Loving Family
32
IN LOVING MEMORY
OF
CIARAN McGEOUGH
Callanberg
June 1999. Aged 7 1/2 Yrs.You have not left us. Your Love
And Laughs Are Forever Locked in Our Hearts.
The last two gravestones. #31 and #32, were new in July of 2001, and are on the same plot. People visiting the graves told us that Ciaran was the grandson of Edward, and this his grandmother, Rose McAdam McGeough continued to lived in Inniskeen.
This old cemetery and church is decrepit and tumbledown. St. Patrick is credited with founding the church. Most of the gravestones are illegible. This is the cemetery where William Steuart Trench, who died at age 63 on August 4, 1872, was buried under an impressive monument that now lies in pieces. I found one McGeough gravestone in this cemetery:
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I H S
This stone was Erec'd By
James Patrick & Peter Mc
Geough In Memory of their
Father Owen McGeough
who departed this life
May Yc / 16th 1770
Aged 39 years.
See: Donaghmoyne Heritage, an organization supporting the restoration of St. Patrick's church. There are several photographs of the old church on the website.
For another listing of McGeough and McGough gravestones in county Monaghan, go to: Monaghan Cemetery List of McGeough on Sheryl Bansfield's website: McGeough of Lynn. See also: Kabristan Archives—Old Irish and Indian Graveyards.
Ann Harney, nee Nancy McGeough, in a posting of August 23, 1999, on the Mcgeough Family Genealogy Forum, says:
"There is a Terrence McGeogh buried in the old Tydavnet churchyard in Monaghan, just down the road from Tyrone. He died in 1775 age 67."
Tydavnet Old Cemetery, by Very Rev. B. O'Daly, 1 Clogher Journal #2, page 43, gives the date of death as March 29, 1775. The same article lists a monument by Patrick McGough to John McGough who died on June 3, 1793 at the age of 28. Father O'Daly says that the cemetery is in the townland of Mullanrocken, adjacent to the townland and village of Tydavnet, that the earliest inscription is dated 1677, and that the cemetery closed in 1910.
[William McGeoghy is listed in the Hearth Money Rolls of 1663 for the townland of Agherakeltan, parish of Tedavnet, county Monaghan.]
In the medieval parish church and graveyard in the townland of Mullanacross in the parish of Errigal Trough (Ordnance Survey map of Monaghan H 6506 5013), according to Memorials in Old Errigal Cemetery, County Monaghan, by Dr. Patrick Mulligan, Father Patrick McEntee and Theo McMahon, Clogher Record 1987, page 372, is a large flat stone inscribed:
"Sacred to the memory of Richard McGeough of Anaugh who died on August 18th 1816, aged 65 years."
An article in the Clogher Record, volume ix, number 1, page 119 (1982) lists the graves of a McGeough and a McGough. Graveyard Inscriptions—Killeevan and Aghabog by Patrick Mulligan, Hugh McCaughey, P.P., and Michael McGourty CC:
"St. Livinius R.C. Graveyard, Killeevan (O.S. Monaghan 12) ... Section C ... g. McGeough, Drumshannon ...
"St. Mary's R.C. Graveyard, Latnamard (O.S. Monaghan 13) ... McGough: Drumate ... Patrick McGough of Drumate 1870–1942; his wife Bridget interred Edragvill 1932; sons Joseph 1904–1933, Eugene 1902–1963 interred USA."
Drumate and Drumshannon are townlands in the parish of Aghabog.
In an article at VI Clogher Record 191 (1966), The Inscriptions of Killanny Old Cemetery, Rev. P. O. Meardin describes a cemetery at the southeast end of the parish of St. Enda in the townland of St. Enda as one of Farney's "most ancient and unusual cemeteries," which is completely neglected and impassable, with headstones knocked down or smothered. The oldest inscription is 1721; the most recent, 1921. He lists this stone:
"This stone was erected by Michl McGough of Louth in memory of his father Peter McGough who died Decr. 10th 1817. Aged 75 years."
Gravestones #25 and 29 refer to Drumcay. (This is probably the townland of Drumcah in the civil parish of Inishkeen.) On June 5, 1917, in San Francisco, California, John McGough, who was born in Drumcay, county Monaghan, Ireland, on June 9, 1893, registered for the US draft. He was single, and resided at 1341 Hayes Street, San Francisco, California. He was working out of the McAllister car barn as a motorman for "United R Ry." World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917–1918 on Ancestry.com. On May 30, 1918, John Joseph McGough, who was born in Drumcay, county Monaghan, Ireland, on June 5, 1893, filed a Petition for Naturalization in the US District Court, Tacoma, Washington. He was a soldier stationed at Camp Lewis, Washington (just south of Tacoma). The petition says that he arrived in the US at New York from Liverpool on June 5, 1914, aboard the Adriatic. U.S. Naturalization Records - Original Documents, 1795–1972, on Ancestry.com. This may be the John McGough listed by the 1920 census of San Francisco (Assembly District 21) as 24 years old, single, born in Ireland who emigrated in 1914 and (according to the census return) was naturalized in 1917, a watchman for a railroad, living with his brother-in-law, Matthew Hoey, age 43, born in Ireland, who emigrated in 1896, and was naturalized in 1902, and was working as a clerk for a railroad. Matthew's wife was Annie Hoey, age 35, born in Ireland, who emigrated in 1904. She was the mother of 2 children, ages 11 and 8, both born in California. They were living on Mississippi Street. Ellis Island records show that John McGough, age 20, single, a laborer, arrived at the Port of New York aboard the Adriatic from Liverpool on June 5, 1914. The ship's manifest lists his nearest relative in the place he came from as his father, Peter W. Gough (sic) (possibly the Peter McGough on gravestone #25) of Drumcah, Monaghan (spelled Muishun?) and his destination as the home of his sister, Mrs. Annie Hycy, 238 Mississippi Street, San Francisco, California. His place of birth is listed as Drumcah, Ireland.
[Thomas McGough,age 25, a laborer, who was born in Inniskeen, Ireland, and whose father was Peter McGough of Drumcah, Inniskeen, county Monaghan, Ireland, arrived in the port of New York aboard The Cymric from Cristobal, C.Z. (Panama Canal Zone), on May 15, 1915. The ship's manifest says he was on the way to visit his brother, John McGough, at 242 Mississippi Street, San Francisco, California. Thomas McGough, who gave his address as 242 Mississippi Street, San Francisco, registered for the draft on the same day as John McGough, June 5, 1917. Thomas gave his birth place as county Monaghan, Ireland; his date of birth as March 17, 1892, and his occupation as a car repairer employed by the Southern Pacific on 7th Street. He had a disabled foot. There was a Thomas McGough, age 29, born in in Ireland, single, who, in the 1920 census, was an inmate in the Stockton State Hospital in Stockton, San Joaquin county, California. The census records shows that he had emigrated in 1915.]
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