Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveslab
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
- 54.31895, -6.89094
- SMR number
- MO007-014006-
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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
This graveslab had been on the floor of the Church of Ireland church of St Slavator but is now set upright in the porch (Shirley 1879, 297). It is a polished limestone (L 1.77m Wth 0.92m; D 0.17m) with shallow shoulders, and the legend is inscribed in roman capitals. Mathew Ancktill was the son of Oliver Ancktill, whose graveslab (MO009-050011-) is in St Patrick's Church of Ireland church in Monaghan town. The English inscription has also been recorded by Maffett (1888-91, 469) and King (1895 122), and reads: MEMENTO MORI / HERE LIES THE BODY OF / MATTHEW ANCKTILL ESQR / OF ANCKETILLS GROVE WHO / IN THE 37th YEAER OF HIS AGE /WAS KILLED AT GLASSLOVGH / IN DEFENCE OF THE PROTEST / ANT RELIGION . AND LIBERTY / OF HIS CVNTRY. MARCH THE / 18 ANNO 1688.
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.
Maffett, Rev. R. S 1891 County Monaghan: Donagh. Glasslough Church. Journal of the Association for the Preservation of the Memorials of the Dead in Ireland. vol. 1, 469-70.
Shirley, E.P. 1879 (Reprint 1988) The history of the county of Monaghan. London. Pickering.
Nearby in the register
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Fontunder 1 mi
- Inscribed stoneunder 1 mi
- Headstoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.