Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveslab
Cam, County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cam
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.45585, -8.12979
- SMR number
- RO048-099007-
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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
The graveslab (dims 1.98m x 0.89m) beside the Lister slab (RO048-099004-) at the E end of the parish church of Cam (RO048-099001-) could be 17th century in date. Part of the now illegible inscription has been read as: ….DAUGHTER OF RICHARD PALMER OF … IN THE COVNTI OF WARWICK, ESQVIRE….. (Denny 1907, 175).
References
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
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.