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Graveslab

Cam, County Roscommon, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Graveslab, Cam, 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
Cam
County
Roscommon
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.45583, -8.12980
SMR number
RO048-099004-

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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

The graveslab of Walter Lister of Milltown but originally from Yorkshire, which is dated 1622, is inside the SE angle of the parish church of Cam (RO048-099001-). The stone (dims 2.26m; x 0.98m) has an inscription in incised roman capitals along the edges. The inscription has been read (Denny 1907; 1911-12) as: WALTER LISTER OF MILTON GENT BORNE AT WESTBY IN THE / COVNTI OF YOUK OF A ……/….E HOVS AND DIED THE 28 OF JANVARIE 1622.

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of revised upload: 5 November 2015

References

Denny, Rev. H. L. L. 1911-12 Cam Church. Journal of the Association for the Preservation of the Memorials of the Dead, in Ireland, vol. 8, 622-3.

Denny, Rev. H. L. L. 1907 Cam Churchyard. Journal of the Association for the Preservation of the Memorials of the Dead, in Ireland, vol. 7, 174-5.

Nearby in the register

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

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