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Tomb - effigial

Donadea Demesne, County Kildare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Tomb - effigial, Donadea Demesne, County Kildare, 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
Donadea Demesne
County
Kildare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.34236, -6.74694
SMR number
KD009-014003-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. C. Kon: Ireland. a. Prov: Leinster. Counties: 1-12 (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

Set into a wall alcove on the S side of the chancel of a 19th century Church of Ireland church dedicated to St. Peter which is standing in the N quadrant of a graveyard (KD009-014004-) c. 10m N of a ruined post-medieval church (KD009-014001-) possibly built on the site of an Early Christian church (KD009-014002-). A fine Renaissance canopied-tomb of limestone with the kneeling effigies of Sir Gerald Aylmer (d. 1634) and his wife, Dame Julia Nugent (d. 1617), and panels carrying their coats of arms. A plaque also records, 'This monument was moved from the old church, November, 1812, by Sir Fenton Aylmer Bart.' (Fitzgerald 1891-5, 207; Aylmer 1895, 301, 305-7; Aylmer 1935, 383-5; Killanin and Duignan 1967, 372).

Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy

Revised by: Caimin O'Brien

Date of revised upload: 27 November 2015

References

Killanin, M.M. and Duignan, M.V. 1967 (2nd ed.) The Shell guide to Ireland. London. The Ebury Press.

Nearby in the register

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

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