Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Memorial stone
Castleforbes Demesne, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Castleforbes Demesne
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.77134, -7.85286
- SMR number
- LF008-012006-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Over the entrance gateway to the rose garden, to the W of the19th-century house ‘Castle Forbes’. This inscribed stone dated 1567 records the capture by Sir Henry Sidney of 'the great rebel Shane O'Nele', who was brought 'in Subjection to the Crown of England to the Great Joyie of the Realm' (Casey and Rowan 1993, 193).
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 17 June 2013
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- Armorial plaqueunder 1 mi
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.