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This tomb bears the coat of arms of the family with the motto ‘AUXILIUM MEUM AB. ALTO’. The shield is blazoned with two lion heads above an ermine chevron with one lion head below. The crescent between the two lions indicates a second son. Above the shield is a knight’s helmet with a closed visor and the crest has a hand brandishing a dagger. The mantling of oak leaves sweeps round from the top of the helmet and drapes each side of the shield. The tomb’s inscription reads; ‘Here lieth the body of Lieutenant William Blakeney of Thomastown, who deceased the last of March, An dom 1664’. William Blakeney received a grant of 450 plantation acres in the townlands of Thomastown and Gortnepequiney at the time of the Cromwellian plantations. The memory of the Blakeneys still survives in the district in the townland name Mountblakeney.
Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien
Date of upload: 3 December 2021
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