Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveslab
Lynally Glebe, County Offaly, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lynally Glebe
- County
- Offaly
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.26536, -7.55562
- SMR number
- OF016-031010-
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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
Recumbent 17th century graveslab belonging to Constantine Molloy of Cully Castle (OF024-004001-) who died in 1683. The recumbent slab (dims. 1.8m x 0.85) lies on the ground 3.4m to the E of the present E gable of Lynally church (OF016-031001-) in Lynally graveyard (OF016-031002-). The inscription on the slab reads 'HIC JACET CORPUS DOMINI CONSTANTIN O MOLLOY DE CULLY QUI ME FERI FECIT ANNON DOMINI 1683' [Here lies the body of Constantine O'Molloy of Cully who had me made in the year 1683], below this inscription there are the words 'MEMENTO MORI' [Remember Death] and beneath this at the base of the slab there is the carving of a skull and crossbones the symbol of mortality.
Compiled and revised by: Caimin O'Brien.
Date of revised upload: 8 June 2015
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Wall monumentunder 1 mi
- Wall monumentunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.