Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveslab
Glebe (killybegs Ed), County Donegal, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glebe (killybegs Ed)
- County
- Donegal
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.62873, -8.44391
- SMR number
- DG097-015008-
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 1881 "Ireland to Illustrate the Military Condition of the Country." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In a graveyard (DG097-015005-). Described in the Urban Survey of Donegal as 'John Lindsey. 1685. The broken top graveslab with incised inscription in Roman script : [H]ERE LYETH THE BODY OF JOHN/LINDSEY BEING 27 YEARS O[F] AGE/DECEASED THE 30 DAY OF JUNE ANO/DOM. 1685. There was a coat of arms below this inscription in the late nineteenth century when the slab was in the churchyard but this is now missing. L. 55 W. 92. T. 11cm. (Mems. Dead, iii, 1895-7, 250)' (Bradley & Dunne 1989, 44).
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 5 December 2008
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Settlement deserted - medievalunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.