Survey Data
Reg No
41309014
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Historical
Previous Name
Saint Mary's Catholic Church
Original Use
Monument
In Use As
Monument
Date
1900 - 1905
Coordinates
293357, 306679
Date Recorded
03/04/2013
Date Updated
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Description
Freestanding rectangular-plan grave monument, erected c.1901, having block-cut limestone walls with cut granite coping. Rubble limestone round arch to north elevation dressed with cut-stone coping, wall stepping lower at north elevation. Carved granite cross to apex of arch on north elevation. Carved marble plaque to centre of north wall, bearing dedication to Charles Plunkett Kenney (d.1901), surmounted by blazon of arm with scroll and ribbon inscribed 'Mea Gloria Fides' ('Fidelity is my glory'). Concrete path to north leading from former Roman Catholic church. Located at south wall of graveyard on axis of path from main entrance of graveyard from north.
Appraisal
This masonry structure is located in a graveyard at the east of Inishkeen village. The graveyard is likely to have existed after the Penal Laws were relaxed in the late eighteenth century, at which time a timber church was built. This graveyard monument is a replica of an older monument in the ancient graveyard at the centre of Inishkeen, which is dedicated to older branches of the Plunkett family who were important local landlords in the north Louth and south Monaghan area, residing at Tallanstown at Louth Hall (now derelict) as Lords Louth. A survey from the 1830s shows that Lord Louth owned 371 acres in Lacklum and Lannatt townlands, both in the parish of Inishkeen.