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, -9.08538
- SMR number
- CL017-020012-
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
On the inner face at the E end of the S wall of Killinaboy church (CL017-020001-). This memorial stone (H 2.44m; Wth 1.75m) comprises a square upper stone carved with a now lime-encrusted shield and mantling. Westropp (1894, 28) recorded the following inscription:
DERMOD O'NEILAN AND TEIG O'NEILAN HIS BROTH
ER, FOR THEM AND THEIR H
EIRES, MADE THIS SEPULC
HER, 1645.
Above the inscription is a panel decorated with finely carved low-relief heads and foliate patterns. Beneath the ledge under the inscription is another finely carved low-relief decorative panel of geometric patterns, partly obscured by the edge of a modern grave (Gilmore 1999, 31-32). There is an O’Flanagan memorial stone (CL017-020011-) on the same wall, nearby to the W.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Conn Herriott
Date of upload: 9-10-2025
References
Gilmore, H. 1999 1644 O’Flanagan and 1645 O’Nellane monuments, Kilnaboy, County Clare. The Other Clare 23, 27-32.
Westropp, T.J. 1894 Churches with round towers in Northern Clare. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries 24, part 3, 332-40.
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.