Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Wall monument
Clonroad Beg, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clonroad Beg
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.84597, -8.98165
- SMR number
- CL033-082021-
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
Moved from the interior of the S wall of the nave to the exterior of the same wall of Ennis Friary (CL033-082001-) within a porch added in the 20th century. A limestone mural tablet (H 0.53m; Wth 0.69m) with an inscription in Latin commemorating Eugene Considine, dated 1686. The inscription, in incised Roman capitals, reads ‘EUGENIUS CONSIDIN CELEBRIS STIRPS NOMINIS HUJUS PROSE PROQUE SUIS HANC OLIM STRUXERAT URNAM POST DESTRUCTA FUIT CROMVELLI MARTE FURENTIS SED REPARATA PRO JACOBE REGE SECONDO ALTERO AB EUGENIO STIPIS EJUSDEM HIS PROFINDE PRECES LECTOR MORTISQUE MEMENTO ANNO DOMINI 1686’ (Westropp 1895-7, 36). This translates as ‘Eugene Considine brought himself and his descendants this previous monument and urn constructed after it had been destroyed in the war of raging Cromwell and repaired in the reign of the pious King James 2nd by Eugene the Younger for them and for him. Do them reader offer prayers/remember death in the year AD 1686.’ (trans. Senan Hedderman O.F.M. 1991) (Bradley, Halpin and King 1988, 76-7)
CL033-082021-_01.jpg and CL033-082021-_02.jpg attached.
Revised by: Mary Tunney
Date of revision: 14 April 2014
References
Bradley, J., Halpin, A. and King, H.A. 1988 Urban archaeological survey - county Clare. Unpublished report commissioned by the Office of Public Works, Dublin.
Westropp, T. J. 1895-7 County Clare. Ennis Abbey. Journal of the Association for the Preservation of the Memorials of the Dead in Ireland 3, 34-9.
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