Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
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Kiltubbrid, County Leitrim, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kiltubbrid
- County
- Leitrim
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.04053, -7.94463
- SMR number
- LE024-021007-
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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
There is a record of two memorials at Kiltubbrid graveyard (LE024-021002-), one with the arms of O’Reilly consisting of ‘two lions rampant supporting a dexter hand: Crest, an oak with a snake descending’ (Anon. 1937, 67). The other had the arms of McMahon of Monaghan ‘an ostrich holding a horse-shoe in its beak, two crossed swords, two rampant lions, supporters, and a dove. The motto is “Manus haec inimica tyrannis”’ (ibid.). The names recorded on the McMahon memorial were those of the brothers Bryan and Hugh McMahon. Bryan commanded the cavalry of Owen Roe O’Neill at the battle of Benburb in 1646, but Hugh was hanged at Tyburn sometime after 1641 so his remains are not present. Neither memorial can now be identified, unless they are in the mausoleum structure inside the N wall of the graveyard.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 13 January, 2017
References
Anon. 1937 Inscriptions on tombstones and monuments. Journal of the Ardagh and Clonmacnoise Archaeological Society 1, No. 6, 65-73.
Nearby in the register
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.