Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Wall monument
Ballyburly, County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballyburly
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.36350, -7.17151
- SMR number
- OF004-013005-
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Church built in 1686 but was partly destroyed in 1972 and has since been levelled. Over the doorway to the church was a plaque bearing the arms of John Wakely quartered with those of his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Oliver Lambert of Painstown. Underneath is the inscription: 'Joannes Wackly edifida has aeded anno secundo regni regis Jacobi Secundi anno domini 1686' (Hickey 1974, 19). This plaque is now in the National Museum of Ireland toether with a graveslab (OF004-013004) and a wall monument (OF004-013002-) from this site.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien.
Date of upload/revision: 07 December 2011
Nearby in the register
- Wall monumentunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.