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Graveslab

Relagh Beg, County Cavan, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Graveslab, Relagh Beg, County Cavan, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Relagh Beg
County
Cavan
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.87173, -6.95072
SMR number
CV034-046013-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1636 · Vltoniae Orientalis Pars (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

Located c. 10m inside the wall of Moybologue graveyard (CV034-046007-) at SW is a sandstone slab (dims 2.04m x 0.85m; T 0.2m) supported on stones. This graveslab was first reported by Brian Callaghan. The stone is very worn but has a raised coat-of-arms crest with memento mori symbols beneath it. 3-D imagery deployed by the Moybologe Historical Society can decipher the inscription which was incised in roman capitals: THIS MONUMENT EREC / TED BY. THORLADH SMITH / NAS OWANAVALLY. AND. / MARGARET SMITH ALES GE / BROAD HIS WIFE FOR THER / FAMILIE ANNO D. 1680 (1650?). The inscription continues in a different script: This stone was erected / by Philip Smith of Leitrim / in memory of his father / …. Smith Who deprd. / …. Posterity Requiscant in pace.
All the headstones are recorded on this web-page accessed on 10/09/2019: https://historicgraves.com/graveyard/moybologue-old/cv-mool

See the attached image courtesy of Brian Callaghan

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 19 March 2020

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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