Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Headstone
Tawnagh (tirerrill By.), County Sligo, Ireland
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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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
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
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Cross - Tau crossunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.