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Wall monument

Abbeyquarter North, County Sligo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Wall monument, Abbeyquarter North, County Sligo, 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
Abbeyquarter North
County
Sligo
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
54.27082, -8.47008
SMR number
SL014-065031-

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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)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 4. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

In Sligo Dominican friary (SL014-065008-), on display on a stone ledge on the S wall underneath the central tower, with two other armorial stones (SL014-065029-; SL014-065030-) of similar design.
Armorial stone (H 0.63m; Wth 0.58m) comprised of a shield underneath a helmet sculpted in relief, with an elaborately carved mantling of swirls and topped with a wreath. There is no crest, and immediately above the wreath is a date, 1625. The shield bears the O'Crean's coat of arms, a 'rampant' wolf (rearing up) between three hearts, which is 'impaled' with a 'rampant' lion, presumably the arms of the Jones family (Crawford 1921, 30). Indeed, across the base of the monument is an inscription revealing that it was commissioned by Robuck O'Crean and his wife Alice Jones:
"Wee two are one by His decree
That reigneth from eternity
That first erected have these stones
Wee Robuck Crean and Alice Jones" (O'Rorke 1890, 253)

Attached image:
SL014-065031-_01.JPG: Slab at Right

Compiled by: Anne-Julie Lafaye

Date of upload: 29 September 2020

References

Crawford, H.S. 1921 The Carved Altar and Mural Monuments in Sligo Abbey. The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, 17-31.

Nearby in the register

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

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