John Moore (1763-1799) of Ashbrook near Straide in County Mayo, was one of four sons of the builder of Moore Hall but not one of it occupants.
John trained as a lawyer in Paris; while there he developed strong republican sympathies. Back home in Ireland he joined the Irish Rebellion of 1798, an insurgency against the British crown that was briefly supported by a French military invasion. The French General Jean Joseph Amable Humbert appointed John Moore the President of the Government of the Province of Connacht in Castlebar, County Mayo. John was captured by loyalists and sentenced to exile.
On his way out of Ireland he died in Waterford and was buried there. In 1961 he was reburied in the Mall of Castlebar in a state funeral.
FORTIS CADERE CEDERE NON POTEST
[The Brave May Fall But Never Yield]
Pray for the soul of John Moore of Ashbrook and Moore Hall, Co. Mayo.
Ireland’s first president and a descendant of St. Thomas More
who gave his life for his country in the rising of 1798.
Born Alicante, Spain 1763.
Died a prisoner awaiting transportation in the city of Waterford 6-12-1799
By the will of the people exhumed and reinterred
here with all honours of church and state 13-8-1961.
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