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Wall monument

Elphin, County Roscommon, Ireland

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Townland
Elphin
County
Roscommon
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.84525, -8.19057
SMR number
RO016-127005-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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

There is a record of a memorial slab to an unknown person with the date 1623 which mentions his wife, Elizabeth Fitzgerald (Weld 1832, 359) in the cathedral (RO016-127001-). The stone survives (Wth 0.9m; H 2.1m; T 0.1m) against the inner face of the N wall but its inscription is illegible apart from the dates in roman numerals. Weld recorded the inscription as:
MS / Exuviae / Audoenni ovd….armiger / Quas in Elphinesai…. recondi…./ Supremis….ulis…./ manebit / Cartissimam fidem in Catholico / Fidelium resurgentium coeternum induendi / Natus est anno aerae Christian… / MDCXXIII (1623)
Denatus XVIII Januarii anno / MDCLXIIII (1664) / Uxore Elizabetha Fitzgealdr / Cum sexi Iberis superslite / Quae doloris suae atque amoris / partier summi / Hoc monumentum / Viro maerens posuit /Tandem deposuit quiequid erat / Mortale Elizabetha supra scritn…..
The rest was illegible.

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of revised upload: 19 June 2015

References

Weld, I. 1832 Statistical survey of the county Roscommon. Dublin, Royal Dublin Society

Nearby in the register

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

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