Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Mausoleum
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 indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.62782, -6.57818
- SMR number
- ME032-001004-
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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
Within the NW angle of the graveyard (ME032-001001-). 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 (ME032-001003-) from the tomb of Sir Thomas Cusack (1490-1571) at Trevet (ME038-017002-) was kept here, but the stone is now missing. A small rectangular area (int. dims 2m N-S; 2m E-W) defined by stone-facings and filled with stones at the NW angle of the enclosure may be a mausoleum, and Cogan (1862-70, 2, 241-2) describes it as a vault. Apart from this there is no other evidence of burial in the enclosure.
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
- Armorial plaqueunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Fontunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.