Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveslab
County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.33930, -6.27114
- SMR number
- DU018-521----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
American Geographical Society Library, UW-MilwaukeeLionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public LibraryDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1799 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
17th-century graveslab/tablet of Dublin City Plasterer Edmond Liniger (died 25th of August 1676) located in the disused graveyard (DU018-494----) formerly known as the ‘Green Churchyard’ or the ‘Vicar’s Bawn' located to the E and SE of St Patrick’s Cathedral (DU018-020269-) which was closed for burials in 1868. Inscription on the graveslab / small tablet transcribed by Mrs. T. Long in 1905 as follows; ‘On a tablet, or very small slab, near the south-east entrance to the Cathedral, is the following inscription: — HERE LIES THE BODIE OF EDMOND LINIGER PLAIESTERER WHO DIED AVGVST YE 25 1676 . . OWEN RVSH [SV] SAN LINIG………..(Anon. 1906, 300).
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
References
Anon. 1906 St. Patrick's Cathedral. The Inscriptions on the Tombstones in the Green Churchyard. Journal of the Association for the Preservation of the Memorials of the Dead in Ireland, Vol. VI, 1904-06, 292-308.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.