Burial marked by the lid of a box-tomb partially collapsed inside the medieval church ruins (TN005-005002-) at Dorrha graveyard (TN005-005003-), Co. Tipperary. The barely legible inscription bears the lines of a poem written by the English poet Alexander Pope (1688-1744) called; ‘Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady’. This poem laments a lady’s tragic fate, dealing with themes of love, ambition, and the inevitability of mortality. The lines on the tombstone read; ‘How lov’d, how honour’d once, avails thee not, To whom related, or by whom begot; A heap of dust alone remains of thee,’Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be’ Pope. Beneath the inscription was the singature of the maker of the tomb which reads, ‘Daniel Grady, fecit (maker)’. This tomb presumably marks the final resting place of Daniel Grady who also made the tomb before his death. Alternatively the tomb was made by the stonecutter, Daniel Grady and marks the grave of a deceased person who is not identified on the tombstone.
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