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Headstone

Tawnagh (Tirerrill By.), County Sligo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Headstone, Tawnagh, 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
Tawnagh (Tirerrill By.)
County
Sligo
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
54.10767, -8.40247
SMR number
SL034-085006-

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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)
  • 1922 · Ireland - northern section. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

In Tawnagh graveyard (SL034-085002-). Located 4m N of the porch of Tawnagh church (SL034-085001-) is a low memorial, (present H 0.56m; Wth. 0.62m; D 8cm), now standing upright, aligned N-S. The base is set in a concrete. On the E face is a lengthy inscription. The earliest identifiable date is 1701 (pers. comm. M. B. Timoney). It bears the following inscription:
'Robert Folliott Dyed
Infant 1701
Katerin Folliott Daughter
to Mary Dyed amaid y 12 of
Novr 1701 Mary Folliott ag
ed 75 years dyed August
ye 4 1719 Babara Folliott
Daughter of Mary Dyed
maid ye 10th of April 1723'
Published in M.B. Timoney, Had me made. A study of grave memorials of Co. Sligo from c. 1650 to the present. (Keash, 2005), 166, fig. 164.

Compiled by: Paul Walsh

Date of upload: 25 August 2011

Nearby in the register

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

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