Nicholas Walsh

A large, weathered, stone ledger in the graveyard at Clongeen, co. Wexford; finely carved but now only partially legible. The Schools Collection at dúchas.ie records that Nicholas Walsh ‘taught Latin in the Horetown Convent about two miles from Clongeen’. Brackets indicate doubtful or illegible text. English follows the Latin.

Nicolao Walsh

Qui hujusce Comitatus juvenes tam

Litteris quam moribus bonis instituens

Vitam consumpsit.

Propter plurimas [virtutes] eximiasque artes

Ingeniumque quo pollebat maxime

Condiscipulorum [...]

Discipulorum [...]

Amicorum [...]

Hoc monumentum posuere

Natus [Clongeen] […] heu

Mortuus [...]

Anno Domini […]

Amen

For Nicholas Walsh, who spent his life instructing the youth of this county in letters and good manners. Because of his many [virtues] and rare skills, as well as his remarkable talent, his old schoolmates, his students, and his friends, have set up this monument. Born in [Clongeen] … alas … died … in the year of Our Lord … Amen.