Memorial stone in Ballylarkin Lower, County Kilkenny

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Described in the Journal of the Association for the Preservation of the Memorials of the Dead (Anon. 1901, 98-9), as a portion of a memorial stone, dated 1551, from the Shortall castle at Ballylarkin (KK013-017001-), which is adjacent to a 17th-century house (KK013-017002-). The inscription (with suggested corrections) reads: '[ACQUI]SICIONIS DE BALYW ET NOGLAISLAND ET PRECCASISTON, AC MULTA ALIA BONA EX SUA INDUSTRIA FECERUNT. ANNO DOMINI MCCCCCLI', meaning that the Shortalls, whom the inscription commemorates enlarged their property by the addition of several townlands and 'effected by their industry many other improvements therein' (Anon. 1901, 98-9). A rectangular limestone plaque (KK013-018005-) with an inscription in raised Gothic script has been inserted into masonry on the sill of the E window embrasure of Ballylarkin church (KK013-018001-). According to OPW correspondence (no date), this stone was over the doorway of the ruined 'Mannor House' (the 17th-century house), across the road from the church and that when it fell down it was brought to 'Clomanty Castle', before being brought to Ballylarkin church in 1932 and 'set in on the slope of the window of the church for protection'.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record KK013-017003

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