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
- 52.84604, -8.98155
- SMR number
- CL033-082025-
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
In the N wall of the nave of Ennis Friary (CL033-082001-). A limestone tablet (H 0.56m; wth 1m) with an inscription in Latin in incised Roman capitals commemorating Dermot Considine. The inscription reads ‘DIERMITIUS MAC CONSIDIN PROSE ET SUIS POSTERIS HUNC TUMULUM FIERI FECIT ANNO 1631 EST COMMUNE MORI MORS NULLI PARCIT HONORI DEBILIS ET FORTIS VENIUNT AD FUNERA MORTIS’. This translates as ‘Dermot Considine, for himself and his posterity caused this tomb to be made, the year 1631. Death is common to all. Death no one spares. The honourable, the weak and the strong, all come to the obsequies of death.’ (translation Fr. Senan Hedderman O.F.M. 1991). A small ringed cross with expanded terminals is carved in false relief on the tablet to the left of the inscription. (Westropp 1895-7, 37; Bradley, Halpin and King 1988, 75)
CL033-082025-_01.jpg and CL033-082025-_02.jpg attached.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 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 Unpublished report commissioned by the Office of Public Works, Dublin.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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