Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Tomb - effigial
Killeen, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killeen
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.53607, -6.59457
- SMR number
- ME038-013007-
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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)
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. C. Kon: Ireland. a. Prov: Leinster. Counties: 1-12 (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
This is the effigy of a knight (dims 2.17m x 0.84 at bottom to 0.86m at top (W); H 9cm) against the N wall of the chancel. The inscription is in gothic lettering but only the legs of the knight and the name Cusack are extant. (FitzGerald 1911, 409, No. VII; Moore 1970, 26, No. 5; Hunt 1974, 208, No. 192)
It is described by FitzGerald as: This is a slab bearing in low relief, the effigy of a knight, now so weather-worn that the lower portion alone shows the device. An ornamental border runs down the outer edge of the two longer sides, and between it and the knight’s effigy is an inscription now indecipherable except for the words: …CUSAK QONDA D[NI DE KILLEEN] DE / STIRPE ET MACIONE….
If a guess might be hazarded, this effigy possibly represents Sir Lucas Cusack, Knt. Lord of Killeen, whose daughter and heiress Joan married Sir Christopher Plunkett in 1401.
Date of upload: 18 March, 2015
References
Moore, B.F.E. 1970 Tombs in St Mary's ruined church, Killeen. Ríocht na Mídhe, 4, 4, 24-9.
FitzGerald, Lord W. 1911 Killeen Church Ruins. Journal of the Association for the Preservation of the Memorials of the Dead in Ireland, 8, 2, 401-.18
Hunt, J. 1974 Irish medieval figure sculpture 1200-1600, 2 vols. Dublin. Irish University Press.
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