Graveslab in Ballyadams, County Laois

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What is recorded here

Found in the SE corner of chancel of the church (LA019-031001-) in 1899 it is a late medieval slab (Wth c. 0.8m, L. c. 2m) constructed of limestone. The low relief effigy is of a cleric,Walter Harpole, Dean of Leighlin 1587-1597. An inscription in low relief around the slab reads; 'HEARE. LYETH. UNDER. THIS STONE. TOO BRETHEREN. ALL. IN. ONE. BRITTIANES. BORN, HARTPOOLS BY NACION HEARE LIVING GOT GREAT COMMENDACION, VALIANT.THOMAS WT. HIS SWOORD. VERTUOUS. WALTER. BY THE WRIT TEN. WOORD'. (J.K.A.S.Vol VII 21, 22, 23).

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LA019-031005

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