Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveslab
Englishtown,limerick City, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Englishtown,limerick City
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.66834, -8.62355
- SMR number
- LI005-017031-
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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
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 Unpublished report commissioned by the Office of Public Works, Dublin.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
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Wall monumentunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.