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Armorial plaque

Ardfert, County Kerry, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Armorial plaque, Ardfert, County Kerry, 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
Ardfert
County
Kerry
Country
Ireland
Coordinates
52.32870, -9.78168
SMR number
KE020-046025-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (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

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 Unpublished report.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

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

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