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
- LI005-017038-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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, 323-4) as following; ‘Wall memorial. Samuel Barinton 1693. Plaque on a pillar near the south entrance:
’MEMENTO MORY/ HERE LEITH LITTELE SAMVELL/ BARINTON THAT GREAT VNDER/ TAKER OF FAMIOVS GIFTES/ CLOCK AND CHIME MAKER/ HE MADE HIS ONE TIME GOE/ EARLY AND LATER, BVT NOW/ HE IS RETURNED TO GOD HIS CREA/ TOR/ THE 19 OF NOVEMBER THEN HE/ SCEST, AND FOR HIS MEMORY/ THIS HERE IS PLEAST BY HIS/ SON BEN 1693
(Fitzgerald 1910, 132-3)'.
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 Unpublished report commissioned by the Office of Public Works, Dublin.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.