Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Memorial stone
Killinaboy, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killinaboy
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.97024, -9.08542
- SMR number
- CL017-020011-
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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
Placed between the windows in the S wall of Killinaboy church (CL017-020001-). This elaborate memorial stone (H 2.18m; Wth c. 2.18m) with a round head, hood-mould and returned mouldings (Gilmore 1999, 29-30) is carved with a low-relief representation of the Crucifixion and two Marys, as well as panels with foliate carvings, with the date 1644 at the top. Lower down, Westropp (1894, 28) recorded the following inscription:
‘UNDER THESE CARVED MARBEL STONES
LIETH CONNOR O’FLANAGA [sic] BODY AND
BONES WHICH MON
MENT WAS MADE BY ANABEL HIS WIFE
ORATE PRO EIS. LAUS DEO’
In an off-centre lowermost panel, containing low-relief carvings of leaves and flowers, a small head with a finely carved face was identified by Gilmore (1999, 30) who suggested that it might be the mason’s mark. There is an O’Neilan memorial stone (CL017-020012-) nearby to the E on the same wall.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 9-10-2025
References
Westropp, T.J. 1894 Churches with round towers in Northern Clare. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries 24, part 3, 332-40.
Gilmore, H. 1999 1644 O’Flanagan and 1645 O’Nellane monuments, Kilnaboy, County Clare. The Other Clare 23, 27-32.
Nearby in the register
- Memorial stoneunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Sheela-na-gigunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.