Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Armorial plaque (present location)
Lanesborough, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lanesborough
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.67330, -7.98782
- SMR number
- LF017-003010-
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
Within the 19th-century (C of I) church dedicated to St John’s, which is to the N of the centre of Lanesborough town (LF017-003----). This 17th-century limestone armorial plaque, on the W wall of the church, displays the coat of arms of the 1st Viscount Lanesborough, Sir George Lane, who died in 1682. The family motto beneath it in Latin reads 'INCONCVSSA VIRTUS', which translates as unshaken virtue. The plaque may originally have been on the family vault beneath the church (LF017-030004-) (Brewer 1825-6, 275) or it may have been in the recess above the entrance gateway to the graveyard (LF017-003008-) as illustrated by Grose (1791, vol. 1, 74).
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 13 June 2013
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.