Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveslab
Grange (bargy By., Kilmore Ed), County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Grange (bargy By., Kilmore Ed)
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.19693, -6.56462
- SMR number
- WX052-002005-
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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
In the nave of Kilmore parish church (WX052-002002-) is a rectangular graveslab (dims 1.92m x 0.73m; T 0.2m) that is broken at the base, and has two chamfered edges. It has an incised ringed cross with a simple one-step Calvary on its upper surface. There is a prayer in English with the date 1659, and initial letters – P.FzN.M.R. - that have been identified as commemorating Patrick FitzNicholl of Ballyharty (WX052-024----) and his wife, Mary or Margaret Rossiter of Rathmaknee (WX042-029001-) (Ranson 1949). The graveslab was discovered in 1949 three feet (c. 1m) below present ground level at what is probably the original ground level, and a tomb structure collapsed beneath it at the time of discovery.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 18 February, 2014
References
Ranson, Rev. J. 1949 1659 tombstone, Grange, Kilmore. The Past, vol. 5, 169-71.
Nearby in the register
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Wall monumentunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.