Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveslab
Taghshinny, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Taghshinny
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.59253, -7.69868
- SMR number
- LF023-097005-
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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 interior of an 18th-century church (C of I) that may incorporate the fabric of an earlier 17th-century church, which was built by the Annelly family of Tennalick (Anon. 1898, vol. 4 no. 1, 265). The church may have built on the site of a medieval church (LF023-097----). This 17th-century graveslab was described in 1848 by James Lyster, the rector of the parish, as 'an old tombstone in the aisle of the church to Mr. Pierce Petit, who was murdered by 'Robt. Sands'-16 (shot, I understand, in a duel). The name is chizzled out, which was done, I understand, by an old clerk named Ayres, about forty years ago' (ibid.). Later in 1891 the full inscription was recorded as 'HER LYETH THE BODY OF | PIERCE PETTIT WHO WAS MURDERED | BY ROBERT SAMS YE 1ST OF AUGUST | 1684 AND LIKEWISE THE BODY OF …' (Anon. 1893, 445).
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 5 June 2013
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.