Priests monument Killursa

 

Priest cairn/monument

Christy Cunniffe

 

Hugh Fergus 1763

Christy Cunniffe

 

John Fergus 1767

This burial monument consists of a stone built cairn of mortared stone with a round cap in Killursa graveyard near Headford, Co. Galway bearing two slate plaques commemorating two eighteenth-century Penal-era priests. One plaque bears the inscription: Pray for the S /oul of Re/verend Hugh Ferg/us Pr^st Ps Dece^{ased /} Ye 24th of Feb^ry In the year / of Our Lord 1763. 

The second plaque reads: Pray for the Soul of / father John Fergus P. s^t / Who Died ⁱⁿ the 40th / Year of His Age On / The 20th Day of / March in the Year/of Our Lord 1767.

Both slate plaques bear a sacred IHS monogram and cross with expanded terminals. Both also bear a chalice and a book typical priests symbols.