
What is recorded here
Built into the N wall of the chancel of Dysert O’Dea church (CL025-091001-). A 17th-century grey limestone plaque (1.21m by 0.64m) commemorating Joan Dea bears the following inscription in incised capitals: ‘THIS THOMBE WAS ERECTED BY MICHAEL O’DEA OF DISHERT |SON OF CONOR CRONE O’DEA THE SECO|ND DAY OF MAY IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD|1684|WHEREIN WAS INTERRED JOAN DEA ALIAS BUTLER WIFE OF THE SD MICH|AEL O’DEA THE ELEVENTH OF NOVEMBER FOLLOWING. EST COMMUNE MORI, MORS NULLI PARCIT HO|NORI, DEBILIS ET FORTIS VENEUNT AD FUNERA MOR|TIS.’ (Westropp 1894, 150)
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Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 27 September 2017
A local church or high cross; wider significance not recorded.
The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.
- What survives
- Recorded monument
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