Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveslab
Clareabbey, County Clare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clareabbey
- County
- Clare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.82911, -8.96882
- SMR number
- CL033-120005-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
This record is for a slab dated 1679 which originally formed part of a wall monument to Samuel Burton and is now on the ground near the tower within Clare Abbey (CL033-120----). The inscription reads: THIS TOMB WAS ERECTED BY SAMUELL BURTON ESQR FOR HIMSELF AND FAMILY WHO DESCENDED FROM THE HOUSE OF LONGNOR IN ST CHADES PARISH. SHROPSHIRE. 1679 (Fitzgerald 1900-3, 17)
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 19 May 2015
References
Fitzgerald, Lord Walter 1900-03 Clare Abbey Parish. Journal of the Association for the Preservation of the Memorials of the Dead in Ireland 5, 15-17.
Nearby in the register
- Religious house - Augustinian canonsunder 1 mi
- Headstoneunder 1 mi
- Headstoneunder 1 mi
- Road - road/trackwayunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.