Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveslab
Lagavooren, County Louth, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lagavooren
- County
- Louth
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 53.71024, -6.34736
- SMR number
- LH024-041104-
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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
Limestone slab, very badly damaged and held together by cement and four iron stitches, situated on the ground S of the church. It has a three-line inscription in false relief around the margin, briefly stating that 'here lieth the corpse of Richard Hill Mayor of Drogheda and his wife Elizabeth'. (CLAJ 1945, 26; Bradley 1984b, 96-7). One of four tomb or memorial slabs (see also LH024-041091-, LH024-041102- and LH024-041103-) located in the modern church and graveyard; all are seventeenth-century in date.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Survey of County Louth' (entry 943) (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1991). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload: 21 June 2013
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.