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Graveslab

Limerick City,Englishtown, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Graveslab, Limerick City, Englishtown, County Limerick, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Limerick City,Englishtown
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
Coordinates
52.66834, -8.62355
SMR number
LI005-017022-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

16th century graveslab in St. Mary's Cathedral (LI005-017015-) described in the Urban Survey of Limerick (Bradley et. al. 1989, 322) as following; ‘’Thomas and Peter Creagh. 1497 & 1546. Limestone slab with Gothic lettered inscription, in the Arthur chapel:

ORATE P AIA THOME CREAGH FILII DAVID Q/ OBIIT V DIE
IUNII Ao 1497 ET P AIA …./ UXORIS EI ET P AIA PETRI
CREAGH FILII EOR Q/ OBIIT NO DIE MAII AD 1546

(Fitzgerald 1910, 128; Talbot 1976, 23)'.

Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien

Date of upload: 18 November 2019

References

Bradley, J., Halpin, A., and King, H.A. 1989 Urban archaeological survey - county Limerick (3 vols.). Unpublished report commissioned by the Office of Public Works, Dublin.

FitzGerald, Lord W. 1910 St Mary’s Cathedral. Journal of the Association for the Preservation of the Memorials of the Dead in Ireland 7, 124-36.

Talbot, M. J. 1976 The monuments of St Mary’s Cathedral, Limerick. Limerick.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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