What is recorded here

Staffordstown holds a tiny two-metre stone vault in the northwest angle of its graveyard, possibly the lost mortuary chapel of the Cussacks of Lismullin. The octagonal armorial stone taken from the tomb of Sir Thomas Cusack at Trevet once stood there, but it has vanished, leaving behind a small rectangular box of stones and a suggestion that the church was re-dedicated in the late 16th century to keep their dead close.

Within the NW angle of the graveyard (ME032-001001-). Hickey (1971, 77-8) contends that the church at Staffordstown (ME032-001----) might have been re-dedicated in the late 16th century as a mortuary chapel of the Cussacks of Lismullin since an octagonal armorial stone (ME032-001003-) from the tomb of Sir Thomas Cusack (1490-1571) at Trevet (ME038-017002-) was kept here, but the stone is now missing. A small rectangular area (int. dims 2m N-S; 2m E-W) defined by stone-facings and filled with stones at the NW angle of the enclosure may be a mausoleum, and Cogan (1862-70, 2, 241-2) describes it as a vault. Apart from this there is no other evidence of burial in the enclosure. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 22 January, 2015

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