RATHCORE CHURCH AND GRAVEYARD INSCRIPTION PAGE
The text is formatted in lines as on headstones. No attempt has been made by me to copy exactly font size, type face and case. I have however copied italics when they occur.
The Reverend Richard Ryan
Map Page Home Page Index Page M to R
  
The Reverend RICHARD RYAN
died
July the (?) 18(??)
aged 4(?) years





I FOUND THESE REFERENCES ON THE INTERNET WHICH SUGGEST HE DIED MID 19TH CENTURY
1 - Ryan, Richard, Vicar of Rathcore. author of Directions for proceeding under the Tithe Composition Acts, with forms of applications, notices, summonses [ ... &c] 3rd edn., containing the 7th and 8th George IV. Chap. 60, and notices of some cases, &c. (Dublin 1828), et al.; but possibly author of Practical remedies for the practical evils of Ireland (Dublin: Tims; London: Hatchard 1828), 33pp.

2 - Ricot na Midhe 2000 - Another NUI Maynooth academic, Dr Brian Griffin, of Bath Spa University, gives a studyof Rev. Richard Ryan, a Protestant rector of Rathcore in the 1830swho wrote with insight and sympathy of the ills of pre-Famine Ireland.