Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveslab
Moylagh, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Moylagh
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.72386, -7.17688
- SMR number
- ME015-032003-
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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
Inside the church of Moylagh (ME015-032----). Adams (1870-1) records the graveslab of Edmond Maolagh (1583) ’19 in. by 15 in. (c. 0.48m x c. 0.38m)’ that is no long present but which was also recorded by Du Noyer c. 1864 (1895). Du Noyer transcribes the inscription as: ORATE P. ANIA. EDMODI / ANAOLAC CVIS COR: / Po SUB HOC LAPIDE IAC / ET 1583 ET WILHELMUo /S EIMSD QUIE FABRIC / HUC LAPIDE SUB Q / USSIT / IPM PONI I.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 27 January, 2015
References
Du Noyer 1895 Moylagh, near Loughcrew. Journal of the Association for the Preservation of the Memorials of the Dead, Ireland, 3, 1, 113.
Adams, Rev. B. W. 1870-1 Proceedings: Moylagh. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, 11, 574-6.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.