Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Armorial plaque (present location)
Slane, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Slane
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.70902, -6.54643
- SMR number
- ME019-023004-
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Two medieval graveslabs and other features from the parish church of Stackallan (ME018-030----) are now attached to the W wall of the vestry of the Church of Ireland church at Slane (ME019-023004-). The escutcheon from over the doorway is the arms of Barnewall, and the inscription is to Sir Barnaby Barnewall, who died in 1493, and his wife, Margaret Plunkett. According to du Noyer (1891) the inscription reads: ‘Scutum Barnabe Barnewelle / Militis Secundam judiciari / de banco Capitale regis. / Margareta Plunket fuit uxor’ (Leask 1960, 2, 31-2; Bradley and King 1985, 151)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload; 2 October, 2014
References
Du Noyer, G. V. 1891 Parish of Stackallen (?) Journal of the Association for the Preservation of the Memorials of the Dead, Ireland, 1, 4, 464-5.
Bradley, J. and King, H.A. 1985 Urban archaeological survey - county Meath. Unpublished report commissioned by the Office of Public Works, Dublin.
Leask, H.G. 1960 (Reprint 1967 and 1990) Irish churches and monastic buildings, vol. II. Gothic architecture to A.D. 1400. Dundalk. Dundalgan Press.
Nearby in the register
- Tomb - effigial (present location)under 1 mi
- Graveslab (present location)under 1 mi
- Architectural featureunder 1 mi
- Graveslab (present location)under 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.