Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Tomb - chest tomb
Mornington, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mornington
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.72171, -6.28295
- SMR number
- ME021-001003-
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
Situated within the graveyard (ME021-001002-). A chest tomb, consisting of a plain slab (dims 2.32m x 1.09m; T 7-13cm) with no devices resting on the S side-panel (L 1.89m; H 0.68m; T 12cm) and E end-panel (L 0.68m; H 0.58m plus; T 15cm) of a tomb are within the area of the parish church (ME021-001001-). The panels have lightly-incised crests – four on the long side and one on the end-panel. Austin Cooper, writing in the 1780s, describes a chest tomb with armorial crests, which he thought were of Bellew and Talbot, including that of Sir Thomas St Lawrence who held office under Edward VI (1547-53) (Price 1942, 106). The four on the long side are very similar and may represent Bellew and Talbot.
See the attached views of the tomb from S (002) and SE (011).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 16 December, 2014
References
Price, L. (ed.) 1942 An Eighteenth Century Antiquary. Falconer, Dublin.
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Settlement deserted - medievalunder 1 mi
- House - 17th centuryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.