Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Armorial plaque
Ardfert, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ardfert
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.32870, -9.78168
- SMR number
- KE020-046025-
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 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Heraldic plaque. 16th cent.
Limestone shield decorated in false relief within a moulded frame. On transept's E wall. The arms are on a heater shaped shield, divided per pale. Dexter a lion rampart with two left hands in chief for Crosbie; three martlets in pale with a lion passant-guardant on the flaunches for Browne. The shield is surrounded by mantling and the crest is a circle pierced by three swords, a rosette and a wolf with wings? couped. The inscription below the shield is in Gothic lettering INDIGNANTE/ INVIDIA FLOREBIT IUSTUS.
Dims: H. 56 W. 52.
FitzGerald 1917-20, 210-11
The above description is derived from Bradley, J., et al. 1987 Urban Archaeology Survey Part XIV County Kerry (32-3). Unpublished report. Office of Public Works. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 11 January 2012
Nearby in the register
- Cathedralunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.