Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Headstone
Donagh, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Donagh
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.31185, -6.91815
- SMR number
- MO007-007006-
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 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated in the SE corner of Donagh graveyard (MO007-007004-) and just W of the graveslab of Philemy McKenna (MO007-007007-) is a cross-shaped headstone (H 0.8m; span 0.52m) with a rectangular cross-section (dims of base 0.21m x 0.13m) leaning to the E. The legend in false relief reads: 1666 / ART O / CONALLEN / HIS CROSS / AND B / VRIAL / PLACE (Shirley 1879, 295; McCarney 1957, 198)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of revised upload: 8 November 2016
References
McCarney, B. 1957 Inscriptions in Donagh Cemetery: Co. Monaghan. Clogher Record 2, 192-203.
Shirley, E.P. 1879 (Reprint 1988) The history of the county of Monaghan. London. Pickering.
Nearby in the register
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Crossunder 1 mi
- Cupmarked stoneunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.