Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
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Ballyadams, County Laois, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyadams
- County
- Laois
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.96252, -7.07331
- SMR number
- LA019-031005-
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Shown on 5 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
Found in the SE corner of chancel of the church (LA019-031001-) in 1899 it is a late medieval slab (Wth c. 0.8m, L. c. 2m) constructed of limestone. The low relief effigy is of a cleric,Walter Harpole, Dean of Leighlin 1587-1597. An inscription in low relief around the slab reads;
'HEARE. LYETH. UNDER. THIS STONE. TOO BRETHEREN. ALL. IN. ONE. BRITTIANES. BORN, HARTPOOLS BY NACION HEARE LIVING GOT GREAT COMMENDACION, VALIANT.THOMAS WT. HIS SWOORD. VERTUOUS. WALTER. BY THE WRIT TEN. WOORD'. (J.K.A.S.Vol VII 21, 22, 23).
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 17 December 2007
Nearby in the register
- Wall monumentunder 1 mi
- Wall monument - effigialunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.