Another lead has been simmering away for many a year. I paid a return visit to Goldenbridge cemetery in September when it was open for architectural heritage week. I followed up with some more research on adjacent stones via the burial records now online (Glasnevintrust website) and also in the Memorials of the Dead (volume detailing the Goldenbridge inscriptions as per 1988) and now I can be certain where my forebears grave is located.
There is a gravestone face down in the mud which I am informed will have helped preserve the inscription. Another day's work to try and raise the stone.
This grave is in an area of the graveyard that has many well preserved adjacent stones and so helped me in its identification. Another family plot is in a poorer area and it is a lost cause trying to find this plot and it is apparant that whatever stone there might have been is long gone.
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