Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Wall monument (present location)
Lisglassock, County Longford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lisglassock
- County
- Longford
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.60520, -7.77142
- SMR number
- LF023-116----
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Incorporated into a wall at the entrance to the farmyard adjacent to Lisglassock House. This rectangular plaque (H 0.63m; Wth 0.51m; T 0.12m) bears a Latin inscription, in Roman letters carved in relief, which reads: 'Faemina virque torus vivos quos / iunxerat unus uno hoc in tumulo / faemina virque jacent'. This has been translated as 'a wife and husband whom one bed had joined when alive lie in this one tomb a wife and husband' (English 1975, 158). On stylistic grounds it has been dated c. 1550-1600 (ibid.). Its original provenance is unknown.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 5 June 2013
Nearby in the register
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.