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Graveslab

Tremblestown, County Meath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Graveslab, Tremblestown, 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
Tremblestown
County
Meath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not idicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.56364, -6.85677
SMR number
ME036-002003-

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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)
  • 1869 · 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

Located in the locked chancel of Tremblestown church (ME036-002----). A graveslab with cursive script commemorating Margaret Dangan was recorded in 1984. The inscription reads: ‘Here lyeth interred the body of Margaret Dangan, sister of William, Lord viscount Dangan, and wife to Robert Barnwall, the 13th Lord Baron of Trimblestown. She dyed the 5th day of Nov. An. Domni. 1680 for whom this tomb was made and chapel re-edified by her said Lord. God be merciful to her soul.’ Added to the end in a different script is: 'and fourth daughter to Sir John Dangan.

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 16 February, 2015

Nearby in the register

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

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