Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Memorial stone
Summerhill Demesne, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Summerhill Demesne
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.47693, -6.72921
- SMR number
- ME043-021003-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
On the external N wall of the stairs return of the house (ME043-021002-) at ground level is a rectangular plaque (Wth c. 0.4m; H c. 0.5m) with the date 1636. The inscription in relief is in a panel beneath a glove with extended fingers over a fish and has been read (FitzGerald 1917-8; Devitt 1909-11, 292) as: PRAY FOR THE / SOVLE OF LVKE / .WYE. PRIEST / 1636.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 13 July, 2016
References
Devitt, Rev. M. 1909-11 Summerhill, Co. Meath, and its neighbourhood. Kildare Archaeological Journal, 6, 214-21; 265-292; 440-62.
FitzGerald, Lord W. 1917 The Summerhill demesne, parish of Laracor. Jounral of the Association for the Preservation of the Memorials of the Dead, in Ireland, 10, 128-30.
Nearby in the register
- House - 16th/17th centuryunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Armorial plaque (present location)under 1 mi
- Cross - Wayside cross (present location)under 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.