Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Tomb - chest tomb
Clonlost, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Clonlost
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.54950, -7.17776
- SMR number
- WM020-038003-
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
17th century chest-tomb (dims. 0.9m H x 2.27m L x 1.02m Wth x 0.17m T) marking the grave of the Nugent family standing in SE corner of Clonlost Church (WM020-038----). The lid of the tomb bears the Nugent coat of arms along with an inscription and a memento mori with skull and cross bones and coffin at base of lid. The inscription reads as following; 'THIS MONUMENT IS ERECTED BY THOMAS NUGENT OF CLONLOST ESQR FOR THE INTERINGE OF HIMSELF AND ISMAY NUGENT HIS WIFE DAUGHTER UNTO THEOBALD NUGENT OF NEWHAGGARD IN THE COUNTY OF MEATH ESQR AND OF THE AFORSD THOMAS NUGENTS FAMILY ANO DOMINI 1672'
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 11 June 2019
Nearby in the register
- Chapelunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.