Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Memorial stone
Limerick City,englishtown, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Limerick City,englishtown
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.66834, -8.62355
- SMR number
- LI005-017035-
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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 St. Mary's Cathedral (LI005-017015-) described in the Urban Survey of Limerick (Bradley et. al. 1989, 322-3) as following; ‘Wall Memorial. Standish Hartstonge 1663. The slab, in the north transept, has an incised Roman lettered inscription:
THIS SMAL MONVMENT WAS ERECTED/ BY STANDISH HARSTONGE
ESQE RECO/ RDER OF THIS CITTY IN MEMORY/ OF HIS DEARE/
WIFE ELIZABETH YE/ DAVGHTER OF FRANCIS IERMY OF GON/ TON
IN THE COVNTY OF NORFFOLKE ESQ BY ALICE HIS WIFE THE
DAVGHTER OF SR AN/ THONY IRBY OF BOSTON KNT WHO DYED YE/
5TH OF IULY 1663 AND LYETH BVRIED IN THIS CHVRCH WHO HAD
ISSVE ELEAVEN/ CHILDREN WHEREOF 7 ARE NOW LIVEING/ 1677
Dims: H. 0.72m W. 0.6m T. 0.05m (FitzGerald 1910, 126)'.
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 Unpublished report commissioned by the Office of Public Works, Dublin.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.