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Tomb - chest tomb

New Ross, County Wexford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Tomb - chest tomb, New Ross, County Wexford, 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
New Ross
County
Wexford
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.39612, -6.94067
SMR number
WX029-013059-

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University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

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)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 14, 1904 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
  • 1911 · Sheet 14, 1911 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

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The National Monuments Service's description

From: O’Mahony, A. (1987, 7, No. 3) Attached to a wall of the former western aisle of the South Transept is a tombstone (Wth 0.84m; H 2.36m; T 0.14m) with a central foliate cross. There is an elaborate I.H.S. on the left side under the head of the cross. The inscription, which is very indistinct in parts, is in a mixture of Latin and English, It reads:

Hic Jacet - - - s f(?) elan (?) and his wife Joan hanroke whose soulless ihus take to merci 1577. Walterus (?) Herey (?) fabricavit eadam (?) tombam
(Here lies - - - s F(?) elan (?) and his wife Joan Hanroke whose souls Jesus take to mercy. 1577. Walterus(?) Herey(?) constructed this same (?) tomb.)
(Vigors 1898-1900; FitzGerald 1901-03)

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Dat of upload: 3 August, 2012

References

FitzGerald, Lord W. 1901-3 New Ross parish, St. Mary's churchyard. Journal of the Association for the Preservation of the Memorials of the Dead in Ireland, vol. 4, 492-4.

Vigors, P. D. 1898-1900 North transept, St. Mary's church. Journal of the Association for the Preservation of the Memorials of the Dead in Ireland, vol. 4, 321-9.

O'Mahony, A. 1987 St Mary's, New Ross: church and monuments. Wexford. New Ross Historical Society.

Nearby in the register

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

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