Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Memorial stone (present location)
Ballylarkin Upper, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballylarkin Upper
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.72288, -7.42749
- SMR number
- KK013-018005-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
A rectangular limestone plaque (H 0.3m; Wth 0.39m; D 0.05m) with an inscription in raised Gothic script has been inserted into masonry on the sill of the E window embrasure of Ballylarkin church (KK013-018001-). According to OPW correspondence (no date), this stone was over the doorway of the ruined 'Mannor House', a 17th-century house (KK013-017002-), across the road from the church and that when it fell down it was brought to 'Clomanty Castle', before being brought to the church in 1932 and 'set in on the slope of the window of the church for protection'. In the Journal of the Association for the Preservation of the Memorials of the Dead (Anon. 1901, 98-9), it is described as a portion of a memorial stone, dated 1551, from the Shortall castle at Ballylarkin (KK013-017001-) which is adjacent to the 17th-century house. The inscription (with suggested corrections) is given as: '[ACQUI]SICIONIS DE BALYW ET NOGLAISLAND ET PRECCASISTON, AC MULTA ALIA BONA EX SUA INDUSTRIA FECERUNT. ANNO DOMINI MCCCCCLI', meaning that the Shortalls, whom the inscription commemorates enlarged their property by the addition of several townlands and 'effected by their industry many other improvements therein' (ibid.). See KK013-017003- for original location.
See attached photograph:
KK013-018005-_01
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of revised upload: 29 July 2019
References
Anon. 1910 Ballylarkin. Journal of the Association for the Preservation of the Memorials of the Dead in Ireland 8, 98-9.
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Sheela-na-gigunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.