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Memorial stone

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

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Memorial stone, Kilmore, County Roscommon, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

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

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (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 Unpublished.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.

Nearby in the register

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

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