Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveslab
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
- 54.31191, -6.91853
- SMR number
- MO007-007008-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
Located c. 3m outside the W wall of the mortuary enclosure on the site of the medieval parish church of Donagh (MO007-007001-). The graveslab (L 1.77m; Wth 0.83m; T 0.13m) has an inscription in false relief: HERE LYETH THE / BODY OF IOHN / SANDERS DEC / EASED THE 25 / IVNE 1666. (Shirley 1879, 295; McCarney 1957, 201)
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
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.