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Memorial stone

Kilmore (ballintober North By.), County Roscommon, Ireland

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Townland
Kilmore (ballintober North By.)
County
Roscommon
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.88907, -8.00894
SMR number
RO018-002002-

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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

A Church of Ireland church, which has a monument on its W wall of James King, the son of Edward King, Bishop of Elphin, dated 1687 (Craig 1976, 14; Hanly 1994) is within the graveyard (RO018-002004-).
The memorial is described by Bayly (1903, 427) as '6' 6'' by 2' 6" (c. 1.98m x c. 0.75m)' and beneath a crest of a lion and the motto ‘In God is my trust’ the inscription reads: HEER. LYES. THE. BODY. OF / JAMES KING. OF. CHARLESTOWNE / ESQ. THE SON. OF. DOCTOR. ED-/WARD KING. BISHOPP. OF. EL-/PHIN. WHO DYED. ON. SA-/TURDAY. YE 2ND OF. APRILL/ IN. YE YEAR. OF. OUR. LORD/ GOD. 1687. BE/ING. YE 77TH/ YEARE/OF. HIS. ADGE/ANNO DOM./1.68.7

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of revised upload: 30 June 2015

References

Craig, M. 1976a Buildings and sites of historic/artistic interest in Co. Roscommon. An Foras Forbartha. Unpublished.

Bayly, Rev. T. 1901-03 Tablets in Kilmore church, diocese of Elphin. Journal of the Association for the Preservation of the Memorials of the Dead in Ireland, vol. 5, No. 3, 427-32.

Hanly, S. 1994 Tir Briuin na Sionna, Journal of the County Roscommon Historical and Archaeological Society vol. 5, 70-1.

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