Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Wall monument
Mollaneen, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mollaneen
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.90926, -9.06835
- SMR number
- CL025-091007-
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
Built into the N wall of the chancel of Dysert O’Dea church (CL025-091001-). A 17th-century grey limestone plaque (1.21m by 0.64m) commemorating Joan Dea bears the following inscription in incised capitals: ‘THIS THOMBE WAS ERECTED BY MICHAEL O’DEA OF DISHERT |SON OF CONOR CRONE O’DEA THE SECO|ND DAY OF MAY IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD|1684|WHEREIN WAS INTERRED JOAN DEA ALIAS BUTLER WIFE OF THE SD MICH|AEL O’DEA THE ELEVENTH OF NOVEMBER FOLLOWING. EST COMMUNE MORI, MORS NULLI PARCIT HO|NORI, DEBILIS ET FORTIS VENEUNT AD FUNERA MOR|TIS.’ (Westropp 1894, 150)
The following image has been uploaded:
CL025-091007-_01.jpg
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 27 September 2017
References
Westropp, T.J. 1894 Churches with round towers in Northern Clare. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries 24, part 2, 150-59.
Nearby in the register
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Tomb - effigialunder 1 mi
- Fontunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.