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Tomb - chest tomb

Kilmallock, County Limerick, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Tomb - chest tomb, Kilmallock, 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
Kilmallock
County
Limerick
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.40102, -8.57466
SMR number
LI047-022085-

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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)
  • 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

This tomb bears the coat of arms of the family with the motto ‘AUXILIUM MEUM AB. ALTO’. The shield is blazoned with two lion heads above an ermine chevron with one lion head below. The crescent between the two lions indicates a second son. Above the shield is a knight’s helmet with a closed visor and the crest has a hand brandishing a dagger. The mantling of oak leaves sweeps round from the top of the helmet and drapes each side of the shield. The tomb’s inscription reads; ‘Here lieth the body of Lieutenant William Blakeney of Thomastown, who deceased the last of March, An dom 1664’. William Blakeney received a grant of 450 plantation acres in the townlands of Thomastown and Gortnepequiney at the time of the Cromwellian plantations. The memory of the Blakeneys still survives in the district in the townland name Mountblakeney.

Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien

Date of upload: 3 December 2021

Nearby in the register

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

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