Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveslab
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
- 53.94042, -6.78465
- SMR number
- MO033-005006-
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 of John Dobbs who died in 1679 is preserved under a fitted carpet in the aisle of the present Church of Ireland church of St. Molua. The inscription has been recorded (Shirley 1879, 373; Maffett 1891) as: HERE LYETH THE BODY OF / JOHN DOBBS WHO DEPARTED / THIS LIFE MAY THE 17th 1679. / MORTVVS. / LOCKT VP IN HOPEFULL SILEN / CE HERE I LYE, WHAT ONCE I / WAS OTHERS MAY TELL, NOT I. / TVMVLVS. / WHO ERE THOV ART HERE I / PROTECT THE DVST, / OF ONE WAS KNOWING, KIND, / GENTLE, AND JVST; / THE HEART THAT GRVDGES / THIS TO HIM THATS GONE, / IS HARDER MVCH THAN MINE / THO THAT IS STONE.
References
Maffett, Rev. R. S. (1891) Parish of Magheracloone. Journal of the Association for the Preservation of the Memorials of the Dead, Ireland, 1, 473-4.
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Headstoneunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.