Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Tomb - effigial
Dunbrody, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dunbrody
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.28381, -6.95925
- SMR number
- WX039-030003-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
University Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
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
There are two shallow niches at ground level in the N wall of the chancel of Dunbrody Abbey (WX039-030001-), which were for tombs. One may have held an effigy from a wall-tomb said to have been of Hervey wearing chain-mail beneath ecclesiastical robes (Brewer 1825, 375; Hore 1900-11, vol. 3, 19-20; Hunt 1974, vol. 1, 237) that is now lost but was probably spurious (Manning 1997, 116-8).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 25 January, 2013
Amended: 5 February, 2014
References
Brewer, J.N. 1825-6 The beauties of Ireland: being the original delineations, topographical, historical and biographical of each county, 2 vols. London. Sherwood, Jones and Co.
Hunt, J. 1974 Irish medieval figure sculpture 1200-1600, 2 vols. Dublin. Irish University Press.
Manning, C. 1997 Delusions of grandeur: the pictorial forgeries of Sheffield Grace. In J. Kirwan (Ed.) Kilkenny: studies in honour of Margaret M. Phelan, 112-28. Kilkenny, Archaeological Society
Nearby in the register
- House - 16th/17th centuryunder 1 mi
- Religious house - Cistercian monksunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.