Maynooth College Cemetery
Documentation & Enhancement Project
The first phase of the Maynooth College Cemetery enhancement project involved minor repairs and cleaning of the O'Gramhnaigh Mausoleum and the reinstatement of Celtic crosses on 27 grave sites of students who died during their time at Maynooth. In addition, a heritage marker was placed near the O'Gramhnaigh Mausoleum to provide information on Fr. Eoghan Ó Gramhnaigh (1863-1899) on the occasion of the 150th. anniversary of his birth.
Project Phase 1 (2013)
"The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living" Marcus Tullius Cicero
Priest, scholar, writer, professor and major figure in the revival of the Irish Language
1863-76: Born and received his early education at Athboy, Co. Meath
1876-89: Student at St. Finian’s Seminary, then at Navan, and St. Patrick’s College, Maynooth
1889-91: Ordained priest and assigned as curate to Ballinacarrigy parish, Co. Westmeath
1891-94: Professor of Irish at Maynooth; promoter of the Irish language revival; co-founder of the Gaelic League; author of Simple Lessons in Irish
1894-99: Resignation and departure for America because of ill health; resided in San Francisco CA; Phoenix, Prescott and Yuma AZ; Los Angeles CA
1899: Died at Sisters’ Hospital, Los Angeles aged 36
1903: Repatriation of remains to Ireland in an event attended by 6000
1905: Re-interment in this mausoleum
Building designed by the architect William Alphonsus Scott (1871-1921) , later Professor of Architecture at University College, Dublin
This plaque erected in 2013 on the occasion of the 150th. anniversary of the birth of Eoghan O'Gramhnaigh
Sponsored by the Maynooth Class of 1963-66-70
Illustration: Kieran O'Sullivan
An tAthair Eoghan Ó Gramhnaigh
Sagart, scoláire, scríbhneoir, ollamh, gníomhaí ar son athbheochan na Gaeilge
1863-76: Rugadh é agus cuireadh luathoideachas air in Ath Buí, Contae na Mí
1876-89: Ina mhac léinn i gColáiste Fhinnín, san Uaimh, agus i gColáiste Phádraig, Má Nuad
1889-91: Oirníodh ina shagart é agus cuireadh amach mar chléireach cúnta é go dtí Baile na Carraige, Contae na hIarmhí
1891-94: Ina Ollamh le Gaeilge i Má Nuad; ina ghníomhaí ar son athbheochan na Gaeilge; ina chomhbhunaitheoir ar Chonradh na Gaeilge; ina údar ar Simple Lessons in Irish
1894-99: D’éirigh sé as a phost agus chuaigh sé go Meiriceá de bharr drochshláinte; Bhí cónaí air ansin i San Francisco CA; Phoenix, Prescott and Yuma AZ; Los Angeles CA
1899: Fuair sé bás i Los Angeles agus é sé bliana is tríocha d’aois
1903: Tugadh a chorp abhaile go hÉirinn, eachtra a raibh tóir na mílte uirthi
1905: Adhlacadh arís é sa mhásailéam seo
Dhear an t-ailtire William Alphonsus Scott (1871-1921), a bhí ina Ollamh le hAiltireacht i gColáiste na hOllscoile, Baile Átha Cliath ina dhiaidh sin, an másailéam seo
Cuireadh an phlaic seo suas in 2013 ar ócáid cheiliúrtha 150 bliain ó rugadh Eoghan Ó Gramhnaigh