Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveslab
Rahan Demesne, County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rahan Demesne
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.27907, -7.61262
- SMR number
- OF016-015011-
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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
Inside the Romanesque Church of Ireland church (OF016-015001-) at Rahan there is a large limestone 17th century graveslab inserted into the N wall of the nave located bear the NE corner of the nave, this graveslab has a skull and crossbones at the base of the slab with initials CM (Charles Molloy) below a Maltese cross carved in relief and above this the date 1683 (Fitzpatrick and O' Brien 1988, 145-6).
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien.
Date of upload: 23 May 2011
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Sheela-na-gigunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.