Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveslab
Relagh Beg, County Cavan, Ireland
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-
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 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (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
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Cross - Churchyard crossunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.