TreeAlive
‹ Sites and Monuments Record, Ireland

Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland

Tomb - chest tomb

Caherconlish, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Tomb - chest tomb, Caherconlish, 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
Caherconlish
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.59452, -8.47296
SMR number
LI014-079012-

Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.

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)

Get directions ↗

This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗

The National Monuments Service's description

Chest-tomb dating from 1672 which marked the burial place of Mary Annabel Gould, daughter of James Gould of Ludden Castle and wife of Sir George Ingoldsby of Ballybricken Castle located on N side of chancel inside the medieval ruins of Caherconlish Church (LI014-079005-). Dineley drew a sketch of this tomb on which he wrote the following about the location of the monument; 'On ye left hand side going to the Alter is seen this upon Sr. George Ingoldesby’s wives mother' (NLI MS 392; Shirley 1858-67, 197-8). The sketch shows the monument as a chest-tomb with A-shaped lid on top of which was carved the following inscription; 'RIS TH M. ANNABEL GOULD DIED XXVII MAY MDCLXXII'.

Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien

Date of upload: 02 July 2019

References

Shirley, E.P., Dineley, T., O'Brien, R. and Graves, J. 1858-67 Extracts from the Journal of Thomas Dineley, Esquire, giving some account of his visit to Ireland in the reign of Charles II. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 6, 73-91, 176-204, 289-90.

NLI, MS 392 - National Library of Ireland, "Observations in a voyage in the Kingdom of France", and "Observations in a voyage through the Kingdom of Ireland", both by Thomas Dingley, 1675-80.

Nearby in the register

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

Sites and Monuments Record data: National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Record text is reproduced unchanged. National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland · CC BY 4.0
All Tomb - chest tomb in Limerick All County Limerick records All Ireland Heritage registers Historical markers (US)National Register of Historic Places (US)
See your own family's places on a living map