Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Headstone
County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.32272, -6.31920
- SMR number
- DU018-038010-
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
The precise location of an early 17th century headstone in Crumlin graveyard (DU018-038002-) marking the grave of Elenor Higgens who died in 1622 has not been identified. The shouldered headstone has an incised Latin Cross rising from the cross-bar of the H of the I H S christogram below which there is the following inscription; 'Here Lies The Body of Mrs Elenor Higgins who Departed This Life July Ye 20 Ano 1692 [1622?)' all of which is framed by an incised border running around the edge of the headstone. (https://www.igp-web.com/IGPArchives/ire/dublin/cemeteries/crumlin.html)
See attached photograph courtesy of Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (SPAB Ireland), https://twitter.com/SPABIreland/status/1465364456611983371/photo/1
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 5 January 2023
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Settlement clusterunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.