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Graveslab

Camaghy, County Monaghan, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Graveslab, Camaghy, County Monaghan, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1636 · Vltoniae Orientalis Pars (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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