Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Memorial stone
Rath, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rath
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.91734, -9.08559
- SMR number
- CL025-084009-
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
Placed upright on top of the remains of a side chapel built onto the S face of Rath church (CL025-084001-). A limestone slab (Wth 0.68m; H 0.64m; T 0.18m) with an inscription carved in Roman capitals in false relief with the letters IHS overhead. The inscription reads 'This chapel is built by Mor Hogan for a burial place for him and his posterity to whom God be merciful 1696'. The chapel (ext. dims. Wth 4.4m; L 4.68m) is filled in internally to the current wall height (1.1m) and there is an opening into an underground burial chamber under the memorial slab at ground level. The slab was reported to the National Monuments Service by Patrick O'Leary.
The following images have been uploaded:
CL025-084009-_01.jpg Memorial stone with inscription from S.
CL025-084009-_02.jpg Memorial stone in its current setting from SW.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 10 July 2019
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.