THIS TABLET IS ERECTED TO THE MEMORY OF REVD FRANCIS SAUNDERSON FOR FORTY FIVE YEARS RECTOR OF KILDALLEN. DURING HIS LONG MINISTRY HE LABOURED WITH UNTIRING ZEAL TO MAKE KNOWN THE GOSPEL OF THE GRACE OF GOD, AND TO PREACH JESUS CHRIST, AND HIM CRUCIFIED. HE WAS THE SECOND SON OF COLONEL FRANCIS SAUNDERSON M.P. OF CASTLE SAUNDERSON IN THIS COUNTY. HE MARRIED IN 1825 LADY CATHERINE CRIGHTON SISTER TO JOHN 3RD EARL OF ERNE. THEIR UNITED LABOURS OF CHRISTIAN LOVE IN THIS PARISH ARE RECORDED IN THE GRATEFUL MEMORY OF ITS INHABITANTS HE DIED DECEMBER 22. 1873 ANNO ÆTATIS 88. AND WAS BURIED NEAR HIS WIFE AT CASTLE SAUNDERSON |