Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Wall monument
Kilfenora, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilfenora
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.99069, -9.21680
- SMR number
- CL016-015017-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Set into the N wall of the chancel of Kilfenora Cathedral (CL016-015002-). A limestone plaque with an incised Latin inscription in Roman capitals commemorating Neptune Blood, son of the Revd. Neptune (Dean of Finebor [Kilfenora?]), his wife Isabella (aged 13, d. 1683), his children Elizabeth (age 6), John (aged 5), Debora (aged 9), Theodosia (aged 13), William (aged 16), Lepedus Neptunus (aged 7), all who died between 1688 and 1700. The inscription translates as ‘Man as the flower groweth up and passes away as a shadow, thus silently have passed even the dear pledges of love to parents whose sorrowful hearts are tortured with grief. If you would seek the names of these and the dates of their death, lo! the lines which are below tell thee all.’ (Barry 1892, 39-40)
CL016-015017-_01.jpg attached.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 1 September 2014
References
Barry, J.G. 1892 County Clare. Kilfenora Churchyard. Journal of the Association for the Preservation of the Memorials of the Dead in Ireland 2, 38-40.
Nearby in the register
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Cross - High crossunder 1 mi
- Cross - High crossunder 1 mi
- Cathedralunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.