Our stunning St Macartan window is dedicated to our local writer Rose Kavanagh 1860-1891.

Rose lived at Mullaghmore, Augher, educated at Loretto Convent, Omagh before moving to Dublin and studying art before taking up writing. She mixed with writers including WB Yeats, Douglas Hyde, Alice Milligan and others. She suffered from ill health and died at home in Augher, a young woman of 31 years having chosen her final resting place in the Forth chapel graveyard in preceding months.

Yeats wrote of her when he heard she had died.

"Everything she did was so like her self - it had the same quiet & gentle sincerity. It was so entirely untouched by the restless ambition that makes writers untrue to themselves. She was essentially it seems to me what people mean by the phrase “a beautiful soul”. To you & me & all of us she is in every way a loss. Some of the pleasure of writing is gone in that we cannot send her anymore anything we write"Rose is interred in her chosen final resting place in the shadow of her beloved Knockmany here in The Forth Chapel Graveyard.

Mary Gillen will deliver a very personal family reflection of Rose Kavanagh and her life.