Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Memorial stone
Ballinrink, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballinrink
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.76144, -7.24636
- SMR number
- ME008-052----
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 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Standing of the N side of a minor E-W road and on the E side of an abandoned entrance to an avenue. This memorial stone (H c. 1m; Wth 0.4m; T 0.1m) was first identified and recorded by Paul Gosling. It is set perpendicular to the road wall and is protected by an iron railing. Its E and W sides have inscriptions and are recorded by Gosling as E face: IHS / [pra]y for the / [soul] of Owen / Reilly who / died January / 28th 173 [5] aged / 63 also of / his wife Marga / ret Reilly wh / o died 9ber 18 / Erect by ------- Reilly 1753. The W face reads: you who go / this road / as we often / did say / your prayer / for the dea / d or if you / be in hast / say that / they may / rest in peace.
See the attached views courtesy of Paul Gosling; _1 from W; _2 from E
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 25 July, 2017
Nearby in the register
- Cairn - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.