Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Armorial plaque
Staffordstown (skreen By.), County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Staffordstown (skreen By.)
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indciated
- Coordinates
- 53.62780, -6.57809
- SMR number
- ME032-001003-
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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
Hickey (1971, 77-8) contends that the church at Staffordstown (ME032-001----) might have been re-dedicated in the late 16th century as a mortuary chapel of the Cussacks of Lismullin since an octagonal armorial stone (diam. c. 0.8m) from the tomb of Sir Thomas Cusack (1490-1571) at Trevet (ME038-017002-) was kept here but the stone is now missing. It displayed the arms of Cussack impaling Darcy with the date 1571.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 22 January, 2015
References
Hickey, E. 1971 Monument to Sir Thomas Cusack. Ríocht na Mídhe, 4, 5, 75-91.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.