Saint Mary's Cathedral, Limerick

THIS MONVMENT BEING DEFACED IN YE TIME OF YE LATE REBEL
LION OF IRELAND WAS BY HENRY YE SECOND EARLE OF THOMOND
OF THE NAME REEDIFYED AN 1678 IN MEORY OF HIS MOST NOBLE
GRANDRATHER DONAGH O BRIEN EARLE OF THOMOND BARON
OF IBREACAN PRESIDENT OF MVNSTER & ONE OF HIS MATIEI PRI
VY COVNCILL WHO HAVING DERIVED HIS TITLES FROM AN AN
CIENT & HONOVRABLE FAMILY SOMETIME YE FOVIDERS OF THIS
CHVRCH LEFT THEM TO POSTERITY MORE ENOBLED BY HIS OWN
VERTVE FOR GIVING EQUALL PROOFES BOTH FOR COVERAGE &
HIGH & MIGHTY MONARCHS QUEEN ELIZABETH & KING
JAMES WITH HONOVRS ABOVE YE NOBILITY OF HIS TIME




THIS MONVMENT WAS ERECTED BY
WILLIAM YORKE TO YE MEORY OF HIS
DECEASED FATHER ALDERMAN
WILLIAM YORKE WHO LYES HERE IN
TERD WAS THRICE MAYOR GAVE ABOVE
400L FOR BVILDING YE EXCHANGE & FREE
LY BESTOWED ITT ON HIS CORPORA
TION CONRIIBVTED TO YE BELLS &
CHYMES WHICH WERE CAST AND
SET VP IN HIS MAIORALTYES WAS
CHARITABLE TO YE POORE CONSTANT
TO HIS FRIEND DYED IN YE YEARE OF HIS
MAJORALTY APRIL 1 1679 AETATIS
SVAE 42 LEAVEING WILLIAM ROGER
& JAME HIS ISSVE BY ANNA YE DAVG
HTER OF HENRY HART ESQ

THIS SMAL MONVMENT WAS ERECTED

BY STANDISH HARTSTONGE ESQ RECO

RDER OF THIS CITTY IN MEMORY 

OF HIS DEARE WIFE ELIZABETH YE 

DAVGHTER OF FRANCIS IERMY OF GON

TON IN THE COVNTY OF NORFFOLKE ESQ

BY ALICE HIS WIFE THE DAVGHTER OF SR AN

THONY IRBY OF BOSTON KNT WHO DYED YE

5TH OF JULY 1663 AND LYETH BVRIED IN

THIS CHVRCH WHO HAD ISSUE ELEAVEN

CHILDREN WHERE OF 7 ARE NOW LIVING

1677

MEMONTO MORY

HERE LIETH LITTELL SAMVELL

BARINGTON THAT GREAT VNDER

TAKER OF FAMIOVS CITTIS

CLOCK AND CHIME MAKER 

HE MADE HSI ONE TIME GOE 

EARLY AND LATTER BVT NOW 

HE IS RETVRNED TO GOD HIS CREA

TOR 

THE 19 OF NOVEMBER THEN HE

SCEST AND FOR HIS MEMORY 

THIS HERE IS PLEAST BY HIS 

SON BEN 1693

THIS TOMB STONE WAS 

ERECTED BY ELIZABETH

CORNS ALS GOODWIN

IN MEMORY OF HER HUSBAND

JOSEPH CORNS WHO

DEPARTED THIS LIFE

FEBRY YE 24TH 1747

AGED 59 YEARS

O Dea memorial 1621

Kilmacduagh, Co. Galway

Mural plaque on the N wall of the chancel

PRAY FOR THE 

SOVLE OF JAME

S MVLANE AND 

HIS WIFE SAR

A LAVGHNANE

WHO MADE THIS

TOMBE FOR THEM&

THEIR POSTER 1709

Location show of the above Mvlane/Lavghnane memorial

The O'Shaughnessy Chapel, appended to the N of the nave in the cathedral.

 

Mural plaque in the W end of the N wall of the O'Shaughnessy Chapel. 

PRAY FOR
THE SOVLE
OF CHARLES
SHAGHNVS
SY AND ELIN
OR SHAGHN

VSSY ALEAS

LYNCH 1708

 

Unattributed Renaissance-style tomb on the N wall of the O'Shaughnessy Chapel. Probably an O'Shaughnessy monument. 

 

Detail of an IHS inscription on the O'Shaughnessy monument.

 

Detail of the crucifixion on the tomb in the O'Shaughnessy Chapel.  

 

Early modern carvings incorporated into a later monument in the O'Shaughnessy Chapel.  

DOMINUS NOSTER SANCTA MARIA. INRI : MISERERE NOSTRI DOMINE MISERERE NOSTRI. FIAT MISERICORDIA TUA SUPER NOS

SANCTUS COLOMANUS PATRONUS TOTIUS DIOCESIS DUACENSIS

Transcription from J.Fahey, 'Kilmacduagh and its ecclesiastical monuments', JRSAI, fifth series, vol. 14, 1904. 

 

Armorial in the O'Shaughnessy Chapel.  

Transcription of inscription in W wall of the O'Shaughnessy Chapel.

Killinaboy, Co. Clare

LOUGHLIN REAGH O’HEHIR’S TOMB, FINISHED BY HIS SON ANDREW O’HEHIR 1711

MELAGHLIN OGE O’HEHIR AND MORE HOGAN HIS WIFE

1644 UNDER THESE CARVED MARBEL STONES | LIETH CONNOR O’FLANAGA’S BODY AND | BONES. WHICH MON | MENT WAS MADE BY ANABEL HIS WIFE | ORATE PRO EIS. LAUS DEO

‘THE ATCHIVEMENT OF ONEILANES’

‘DERMOD O’NEILAN AND TEIGE O’NEILAN HIS BROTH | ER, FOR THEM AND THEIR H | EIRES, MADE THIS SEPULC | HER, 1645.’

Inscriptions from: Churches with Round Towers in Northern Clare by Thomas Johnson Westropp

Ennis Friary, Co. Clare

EUGENIUS CONSIDIN CELEBR | IS STIRPS NOMINIS HUJUS PRO | SE PROQUE SUIS HANC OLIM | STRUXERAT URNAM POST | DESTRUCTA FUIT CROMVELLI MA | RTE FURENTIS SED REPARATA | PRO JACOBE REGE SECONDO AL | TERO AB EUGENIO STIPIS EJUSDEM HIS PROFUNDE PRECES LECTOR MORTISQUE MEMENTO ANNO DOMINI 1686

Fragment of a probable 16th century graveslab. Thought to belong to Teig O'Brien of Ballingown (d.1578).

DIERMITIUS CONSIDIN PRO | SE ET SUIS POSTERIS HUNC TUMU | LUM FIERI FECIT ANNO 1631 | EST COMMUNE MON MORS MILLI PARCIT HO | NORI DEBILIS UT FORTIS VENIVNT AD FUNERA MORTIS

HERE LIES THE BODY OF TIEGE O | KERIN OF GLEAN WHO DYED THE | 26 OF JANUARY IN THE YEARE | 1685. THIS STONE WAS SET UP BY THADY KERIN SON TO THE SAID TIEGE | VIXISTI FÆLIX MORIERE BEATIOR | NUNC SPES TIBI VITA FUIT MORS TIBI MUNUS ERAT

HIC JACENT JACOBUS MACNAMARA ET UXOR EJUS HELEN ALEE DE ENNIS QUORUM FILIUS PRIMOGENITUS JOHANNES MACNAMARA DE LIMERICK HOC MONUMENTUM EREXIT ILLIS SIBI ET HEREDIBUS SUIS ANNO DOMINI 1686. VIVE MEMOR MORTIS QUI SEMPER VIVERE POSSIS QUIDQUID ADEST TRANSIT QUOD MANET ECCE VENIT MISEREMINI MEI MISEREMINI MEI SALTEM VOS AMICI, VOS MEI JOB 19