Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Memorial stone
Englishtown,limerick City, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Englishtown,limerick City
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.66834, -8.62355
- SMR number
- LI005-017037-
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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, 323) as following; ‘William York. 1679. This slab is inserted in a column on the left of the choir:
THIS MONUMENT WAS ERECTED BY/ WILLIAM YORKE, TO YE
MEMORY OF HIS/ DECEASED FATHER, ALDERMAN/ WILLIAM YORKE,
WHO LIES HERE IN/ TERD: WAS THRICE MAOIR: GAVE ABOVE/
FOUR HUNDRED POUNDS FOR BUILDING YE/ EXCHANGE FREELY
BESTOWED IT ON THE/ CORPORATION: CONTRIBUTED TO YE BELLS
AND/ CHYMES WHICH WERE CAST AND/ SET UP IN HIS
MAOIRALTYES: WAS/ CHARITABLE TO THE POORE: CONSTANT/ TO
HIS FRIENS: DYED IN THE TRVE CHRI/ STIAN FAITH THE LAST
YEAR OF HIS/ MAOIRALTY APRIL 1 1679 AETATIS/ SUAE 42
LEAVING WIELLIAM ROGER/ & JANE HIS ISSUE BY ANNA THE
DAVG/ HTER OF HENRY HART ESQ
(FitzGerald 1910, 133; Talbot 1976, 108)'.
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 Unpublished report commissioned by the Office of Public Works, Dublin.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
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.