Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Armorial plaque
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
- 53.73320, -7.14341
- SMR number
- ME015-027004-
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
An armorial crest is inserted over the S window of the transept of Lough Crew church (ME015-027----) under a square hood-moulding. This may have come from another site as the complicated crest includes bearings of the Naper family, who were awarded the Plunkett lands in the 1650s, and what may be Barnwell. It is probably 17th century in date.
See the attached image.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 12 December, 2014
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.