Irish Independent August 28, 1930 page 8 BEQUESTS IN DOWN PRIEST'S WILL Very Rev John Rooney, Hilltown, Co. Down, who died in June last, left £3,459. Religious bequests include £500 for the celebration of Masses, £250 to the Maynooth China Mission, and £400 to the Bishop of Dromore for the Seminary at Violet Hill, Newry. He left £500 to his niece, Teresa Maher, £100 to his niece, Moira Rooney; £100 to his nephew, Daniel Rooney £200 to his housekeeper, Annie Fanning; £50 to his chauffeur, Daniel Morgan; £100 for the poor of Clonduff; and the residue for the purchase of Stations of the Cross and marble altar rails for Hilltown Church, and erection of a Calvery in the new graveyard at Ballymagheny; any surplus to be used for religious purposes in the churches of Hilltown and Cabra. He desired to be buried in the cemetery at New Chapel, "near where Fathers Grant and Mooney are interred" and the executors are to have a reclining statue of "Our Lord of the Cross" erected over the grave, at a cost not to exceed £200.