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
- 52.84598, -8.98130
- SMR number
- CL033-082027-
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
A limestone wall plaque on the S wall of the chancel of Ennis Friary (CL033-082001-) with an inscription commemorating Mary FitzGerald (d. 1697), mother of James Woulfe and his wife Alice Woulfe (d. 1742). The inscription according to Westropp (1895-7) reads 'ERECTED BY JAS WOULFE FOR THE REMAINS OF HIS MOTHER MARY FITZGERALD WHO DYED ....BR 1697 AND OF HIS BELOVED WIFE ALICE WOULFE WHO DYED YE 12 OF XBR 1742'.
CL033-082027-_01.jpg attached.
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 14 April 2014
References
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.
Nearby in the register
- Religious house - Franciscan friarsunder 1 mi
- Wall monumentunder 1 mi
- Wall monumentunder 1 mi
- Wall monumentunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.