Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveslab
Mothel, County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Mothel
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.29851, -7.41842
- SMR number
- WA007-010006-
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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)
- 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
A limestone graveslab (dims. 2.24m x 0.8m) with a highly decorated cross in relief is within a hexagonal grave-plot at the Augustinian abbey of Mothel (WA007-010001-). It has a Latin inscription in Gothic script: Hic jacet Ricardus Poer suae nationis capitaneus que obiit III die mensis Octobris Anno Domine Millesimo CCCCLXXXIII … pro…do…. Amen (Mems. Dead, 1907-09, 473). (Here lies Richard Power, captain of his nation, who died the third of October, 1483….)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 01 November 2010
Nearby in the register
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Crossunder 1 mi
- Tomb - chest tombunder 1 mi
- Tomb - chest tombunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.