Graveslab in Glaslough

This graveslab had been on the floor of the Church of Ireland church of St Slavator but is now set upright in the porch (Shirley 1879, 297). It is a polished limestone (L 1.77m Wth 0.92m; D 0.17m) with shallow shoulders, and the legend is inscribed in roman capitals. Mathew Ancktill was the son of Oliver Ancktill, whose graveslab (MO009-050011-) is in St Patrick's Church of Ireland church in Monaghan town. The English inscription has also been recorded by Maffett (1888-91, 469) and King (1895 122), and reads: MEMENTO MORI / HERE LIES THE BODY OF / MATTHEW ANCKTILL ESQR / OF ANCKETILLS GROVE WHO / IN THE 37th YEAER OF HIS AGE /WAS KILLED AT GLASSLOVGH / IN DEFENCE OF THE PROTEST / ANT RELIGION . AND LIBERTY / OF HIS CVNTRY. MARCH THE / 18 ANNO 1688. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 9 November, 2016

Early Christian gravestone; 7th–9th century. It is significant as a rare surviving example of early medieval funerary art in the region, possibly associated with the ecclesiastical site of St Slavator.