Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Memorial stone
Nenagh North, County Tipperary North, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Nenagh North
- County
- Tipperary North
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.86573, -8.19767
- SMR number
- TN020-037003-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Seventeenth-century wall plaque of limestone and marble with segmental pediment with hood-moulding beneath which is the inscription surrounded by flat colums, the capitals of which continue the hood-mould, these are flanked by volute brackets. The whole is resting on a red marble plinth supported by two corbels. In total is c.1.2m H and 1.6m W. The inscription incised in Roman capitals is dedicated to Mary Finch who died in 1678. Located on NE wall of St. Mary's Church of Ireland church, immediately E of the door. The inscription reads: HERE LYETH THE BODY OF MARY FINCH DAUGHTER OF PETE BANELL OF TABLY IN CHESHYRE ESQR SHE WAS MARRIED UNTO SYMON FINCH ESQR THE 5th DAY OF AUGT 1651 HER MOTHER WAS SISTER UNTO SR RICHARD GROSVENOR OF EATON IN CHESHYRE K T N SHE DEPARTED THIS LIFE AT KILCOLMAN THE 26th DAY OF JAN 1679 IN THE 59th YEARE OF HER AGE.
The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008
Nearby in the register
- Castle - Anglo-Norman masonry castleunder 1 mi
- Cross-slab (present location)under 1 mi
- Cross-slab (present location)under 1 mi
- Cross-slab (present location)under 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.