Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Wall monument
Portlecka, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Portlecka
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.92813, -8.99011
- SMR number
- CL025-070003-
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
Situated against the N wall of a small chapel abutting the S wall of Ruan church (CL025-070001-). A chest tomb comprising large limestone blocks over which is a plaque with an inscription in Roman capitals that reads first in English ‘This chapel and tomb were erected by Donogh O’Kerine, the son of Dermot O’Kerine of Owan, for him and his posterities use in the year of our Lord God 1688’ and then in Latin 'Enmors ante fores mu/ndi! si queris honores, cri/mina deplores. Pro me te/ deprecor ores' which translates as 'Behold Death standing in front of the portals of the World! If you seek honours, repent your crimes. I entreat you to pray for me.' (Westropp 1900-02, 142; Swinfen 1992, 112; http://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclare/genealogy/don_tran/graves/ruan_graveyard_transcriptions.htm. Accessed 15 October 2018)
CL025-070003-_01.jpg and CL025-070003-_02.jpg attached.
Revised by: Mary Tunney
Date of revision: 15 October 2018
References
Westropp, T.J. 1900-02 The churches of Co. Clare and the origin of the ecclesiastical divisions in that county. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, Series 3, vol. 6, 100-180.
Swinfen, A. 1992 Forgotten stones: Ancient church sites of the Burren and environs. Dublin. Lilliput Press.
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Tomb - chest tombunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.