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Graveslab

Balsoon, County Meath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Graveslab, Balsoon, County Meath, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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