Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveslab
Loughcrew, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Loughcrew
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.73326, -7.14360
- SMR number
- ME015-027002-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1636 · Vltoniae Orientalis Pars (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)
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The National Monuments Service's description
On the ground inside the W doorway of the residential tower at the W end of the parish church of Loughcrew (ME015-027----) is the graveslab (dims c. 1.5m x 0.8m) of Elizabeth Duddel dated 1676 with an inscription in false relief (Moore c. 1975, 13). The inscription reads: HERE _IETH THE BOD / YE OF MRS ELIZ_BE__ DVDD / EL WI_ _ TO / _ _ _ HARD D _ _ _EL OF LOGH C / REW WITH HER CH / ILDREN SHE DI / ED THE 7 OF NO / VEMBER AN DOM / 1676
See the attached image.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload; 12 December, 2014
References
Moore, B. E. F. c. 1975 Notes on the antiquities of Co. Meath. Unpublished typescript. Author.
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Armorial plaqueunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.