Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveslab
Balsoon, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Balsoon
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.58798, -6.69883
- SMR number
- ME031-020002-
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
Three fragments of the early 17th century Eliot graveslab (dims 1.03m x 0.95m) were recovered in the graveyard of Balsoon church (ME031-020----) and are now just W of the inserted chancel wall (Ball-Wright 1887-8, 463-5). The Latin fragmentary inscription, deeply incised in gothic lettering, is running around the edge, with heraldic shields representing the Elliot, Smart, Might, Rochfort and Ussher families are at the centre. The graveslab was examined again by FitzGerald (1904-06, 590) who translates the inscription as: ‘..Baron of the Exchequer, and Ismay Rochfort his wife, erected this chapel. She died x..’ Ismay was married to Sir John Eliot who died in 1616.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 9 January, 2015
References
FitzGerald Lore W. 1904-06 Balsoon Churchyard, same parish. Journal of the Association for the Preservation of the Memorials of the Dead, Ireland, 589-93.
Ball-Wright, Rev. W. 1887-8 Notes on the sepulchral slab of Sir John Eliot, in Balsoon graveyard. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, 18, 463-5.
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.