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Graveslab

Englishtown,Limerick City, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Graveslab, Englishtown, Limerick City, 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
Englishtown,Limerick City
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
Coordinates
52.66834, -8.62355
SMR number
LI005-017031-

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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

17th century graveslab in the floor of St. Mary's Cathedral (LI005-017015-) described in the Urban Survey of Limerick (Bradley et. al. 1989, 321) as following; ‘Floor slab. Creagh 1632.
This slab in the Arthur chapel is decorated in high relief with a Gothic lettered inscription:

[ORATE] PRO ANIMAB DOMINICI ... ET GENETE CR/ EAGH
UXORIS EIVS/ EIVS [sic] QUAE .... 28 NOVEMBRIS 1632

(FitzGerald 1910, 129)'.

Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien

Date of upload: 18 November 2019

References

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.

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 Unpublished report commissioned by the Office of Public Works, Dublin.

Nearby in the register

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

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