Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Tomb - chest tomb
Carrowkeel (Burrishoole By., Burrishoole Par.), County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Carrowkeel (Burrishoole By., Burrishoole Par.)
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.89867, -9.57228
- SMR number
- MA067-014005-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 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)
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
In Burrishoole Dominican friary (MA067-014001-) incorporated into an altar recess at the S end of the E wall of the S chapel.
A 17th-century limestone chest tomb surmounted by a cut-stone round-headed arch is inserted into the 15th-century altar recess, partly blocking the double ogee-headed light. The edges of the coffin lid are sculpted with mouldings mirrored by similar mouldings along the base of tomb. A Latin inscription is carved in false relief along the front of the tomb just underneath the coffin lid: Orate pro anima Davidis oge Kelly qui me fieri fecit sibi et heredibus suis Anno Domini 1623 et ejus uxori Anabala Barrett. It translates as: Pray for the soul of David Kelly junior who had me made and his heirs AD 1623 and [for the soul] of his wife Anabla Barrett.’
Attached images:
MA067-014005-_01.JPG 17th-century wall monument/O’Kelly tomb in 15th-century altar recess
MA067-014005-_02.JPG Dedication carved on side of tomb
MA067-014005-_03.JPG Date: 1623
Compiled by: Anne-Julie Lafaye and Jane O'Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 12 January 2022
Nearby in the register
- Religious house - Dominican friarsunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Metalworking siteunder 1 mi
- Earthworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.