Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveslab
Magheross, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Magheross
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.97176, -6.71903
- SMR number
- MO031-035004-
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
The graveslab (Wth 0.93m; L 1.93m) of John Daniell with a crest and the date 1681 is in the parish church of Magheross (MO031-035001-) just E of the graveslab of John Carver, the first Master of the Free School, dated 1711. The inscription on the Daniell slab is illegible now but it was recorded by Shirley (1879, 363) as: HERE LYETH THE BODY / OF JOHN DANIELL ESQV. / OF DALESBERY IN CHES / HIRE IN THE KINGDOME / OF ENGLAND WHO / DESEASED JVNE THE / SIXTH IN THE YEAR / ONE THOVSAND SIX / HVNDRED EIGHTY AND / ONE AGED 97 YEARS.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 1 December, 2016
References
Shirley, E.P. 1879 (Reprint 1988) The history of the county of Monaghan. London. Pickering.
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Cross - Churchyard crossunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.