What is recorded here

Tomb is a tomb (chest tomb) in Gorey Corporation Lands, County Wexford, Ireland. The 1974 to 1985 inventory recorded this oblong chest tomb of Archbishop Ram, who died in 1634, within the masonry-walled graveyard of the parish church. The structure measured 1.85 metres by 0.95 metres with a height of 0.75 metres and carried an English and Latin inscription in relief on the west end-stone. The inventory also noted that the chest lies over a vault that was opened temporarily around 1909 and then sealed.

The parish church of Gorey (WX007-033001-) was within a rectangular graveyard (WX007-033002-) defined by masonry walls. The tomb-chest of Archbishop Ram (D 1634) is within the graveyard. This is an oblong structure (dims. 1.85m x 0.95m; H 0.75m) with an English and Latin inscription in relief on the W end-stone. It lies over a vault that was opened temporarily around 1909 and then sealed (Cantwell 1974-85, vol. 5, No. 189). Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 15 March, 2012

Chest tomb, 17th century. Associated with Archbishop Ram, it is a notable example of early modern funerary architecture in the region.

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