Monday, August 31, 2015

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













Friday, August 19, 2011

Lorrha Dominican Priory, Co. Tipperary












Athenry Dominican Priory, Co. Galway















The mistcall sense of the armes [are] in this verse " Pour honeur de conquestrant, Et un illustre marque de glor, II voleut q[u]e le lion rempennt, Porta le pns de leur victoire. " Here is the antient sepulchre of the sept of Walls of Droghty, late demolished by Cromellians, and now reedified by Walter Wall fich Peeter of the said sept, for his oune and posterities use; Ano Domni 1682. " Insignia hujus famili[a]e Crux et Leo : et notat H . . . sus n[o ?] bilis antiquum retniet (sic) gens Vallia sterna (sic) nam leo magnanimam cu . . .





Claregalway Friary, Co. Galway













Sligo Dominican Priory












Abbeyknockmoy, Co. Galway