Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveslab
Diméin Bhaile Ghib, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Diméin Bhaile Ghib
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.69615, -6.75973
- SMR number
- ME017-034005-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Isaac Butler, writing c. 1749, describes the church at Donaghpatrick (ME017-034006-) as a ruin but records a graveslab of Patrick Plunket (1575) and his wife Elizabeth Barnewall of Cribistown (Gibstown) in its chancel, which is still present (Butler 1892, 127-8).
From Butler’s notes (c. 1740): The church, from its ruins, must have been considerable. It is a great burial-place, several large gravestones, but so obsolete that there is no reading them. There is one in the chancel of said church, on the right-hand of the altar with the following inscription:
ORATE PRO ANIMABUS / PATRICII PLUNKET DE- / CRIBISTON QUI OBIT 1 / NOVEMBR AD 1575. ET / ELIZABETH BARNEWALL / QUAM SIBE PRIE M U / UXOR O… QUI OBIIT / 14 AUGUSTI / 1550, ET / MARGARETE DLINU…C / QUAM DE T … DE DIN QUE / DE VITA MICARAVIT 1588 / ALEXANDER PLUNKET HEREDES.
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Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 3 September 2014
References
Butler, I. 1892 Donaghpatrick. Journal of the Association for the Preservation of the Memorials of the Dead in Ireland, 2, 167.
Nearby in the register
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Fontunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.