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Tomb

Tomb, chest tomb

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Situated on a S-facing slope. The parish church of Newcastle (WA016-026001-) has a chest tomb cover (dims. 1.9m x 1.1m) of James Ronan of Hacketstown dated 1626 (Walton 1980, 70) in the NE corner of the church, but its side-panels with symbols of the Passion is in the SE corner. An octagonal font (WA016-025004-) is just outside the church to the N. A castle site (WA016-025----) is c. 70m to the NW. (Martin 1874-5, 249-50; Power 1895, 169-70) Compiled by: Michael Moore. Date of upload/revision: 20th December, 2010.
Chest tomb, early 17th century. Associated with James Ronan of Hacketstown, indicating local gentry burial practices in the early modern period.

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