Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Tomb - unclassified
Knockaunmore, County Kerry, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockaunmore
- County
- Kerry
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.35350, -9.68719
- SMR number
- KE021-053006-
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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
Revd. Power (1929, 92) recorded that; 'Richard Hitchcock (Kilkenny Archaeological Journal, vol. II. p. 131.) quotes the following inscription from a tombstone here : Ambrosius Piers, vic. Gen. Dioces. Ardfert. Hunc tumulum sibi fieri fecit. Anno 1587." The Rev. B. Rowan, D.D., Belmont, Tralee, sent Hitchcock a report about this inscription in which he stated that 'I send you an inscription from Abbey-dorney church more ancient than any you have given: AMBROSIUS PIERS. VIC. GEN. DIOCES. ARDFERT HUNC TUMULUM SIBI FIERI FECIT, ANNO 1587' (Hitchcock 1852, 131). An alternative reading of this inscription and its location is described by John O'Donovan in 1841 as follows; 'There is a tomb erected in the north wall near the north-east corner but there is no inscription to show to whom it was erected On a small limestone flag lying opposite it is the following inscription in Roman capitals, but this inscription does not appear to be as ancient as the tomb.
Ambrosius Piers Vic: G. Dioces: Ardfert hunc tumulum sibi fieri curavit. Anno 1687' (O'Donovan 1983, 37).
The precise location of this 16th century tomb within the NE angle of Abbeydorney monastery (KE021-053001-) has not been located.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 26 July 2022
References
Power, P. 1929 The Cistercian abbeys of Munster. Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society 34, 22-9; 91-7.
O'Donovan, J. 1983 The antiquities of the county of Kerry. Cork. Royal Carbery Books.
Hitchcock, R. 1852 Gleanings from Country Church-Yards. Transactions of the Kilkenny Archaeological Society 2, 127-133.
Nearby in the register
- Exhibitionist figureunder 1 mi
- Religious house - Cistercian monksunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.