Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Headstone
Camaghy, County Monaghan, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Camaghy
- County
- Monaghan
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.94049, -6.78492
- SMR number
- MO033-005003-
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 within the graveyard at the site of the medieval parish church of Magheracloone (MO033-005001-). There is a headstone shaped like a latin cross (H 0.7m; span 0.74m) with a rectangular cross-section (dims 0.4m x 0.22m) commemorating Owen MacMahon and his wife Rose Kelly with the date 1687 close to the church door (Shirley 1879, 373). The legend is inscribed in roman capitals and reads: ‘IHS / THIS CROS WA/S MADE FOR O/WEN MACMAHON AND / HIS WIFE ROSE REILY / IN JULY 1687 AND HE/RE LIETH HIS FATHER / LOUGHLIN MAC EDMON/D MA PHELIM/Y.’
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Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of revised upload: 21 November 2016
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.