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
- 52.92830, -8.98984
- SMR number
- CL025-070006-
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
Mounted sideways on a vault behind Ruan church (CL025-070001-). A slab with an inscription that reads ‘IHS / Ma /Mort O_Grifuh / Pro se et Hered / Fiere Fecit / MDC43’ which translates as ‘Jesus / Mary / Mort.O_Griffy [Mortimer O’Griffy]/ for him and his heirs /1643’. (http://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclare/genealogy/don_tran/graves/ruan_graveyard_transcriptions.htm. Accessed 15 October 2018)
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 22 October 2018
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.