Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Headstone
Glaslough, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Glaslough
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.31897, -6.89108
- SMR number
- MO007-014004-
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
Located outside the W wall of the tower of Glaslough Church of Ireland church of Salvator, this was found under a pew in the church in 1838. The headstone (dims 0.46m x 0.1-0.16m; H 0.76) has an incised inscription in roman capitals with dots between the words. It has been read (Shirley 1879, 297) as: HERE . LYETH / THE . BODY . / OF . JOHN . C / ONELL . W / HO . WAS . B / ORNE . THE . 4 / OF . MAY . / 1671 . / AND . DYED . / THE . 16 . OF . / MARCH . FOLLOWING. King (1895) reads the end of the inscription as: …AND . DYED . / THE . 16 . OF . / MARCH OF / 1710 WINO
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 9 November, 2016
References
King, H. 1895 Parish of Donagh. Journal of the Association for the Preservation of the Memorials of the Dead, Ireland. vol. 3, 121-3.
Shirley, E.P. 1879 (Reprint 1988) The history of the county of Monaghan. London. Pickering.
Nearby in the register
- Fontunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Inscribed stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.