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Graveslab

Grange (Bargy By., Kilmore ED), County Wexford, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Graveslab, Grange, 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
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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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1911 · Sheet 14, 1911 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

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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

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

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