CL-QUFR-0227

Record Date: 
27 June 2023
Graveyard: 
Quin Friary
Exact wording of epitaph: 

IHS
THIS TOMB WAS ERECTED BY MATTHW
MACNAMARA OF MOOHANE IN YR
1560 AND REPAIRED BY HIS GREAT
GRANDSON MATHEW MACNAMERA
OF SUMMERHILL IN YEAR 1768 IN
MEMORY OF HIS FATHER TEIGE AND
BROTHER JASROWE MCNEMARA
RJP

Possibly:

Association for the Preservation of the Memorials of the Dead, Ireland
Journals 1893, Vol. II (2) Quin Abbey From Thos. J. Westropp, M.A.

“This tomb was erected by MATTHEW M‘NAMARA of Moohane in the year 1700 (?) and repaired by his grandson MATTHEW MACNAMARA of Summerhill in the year 1768 in memory of his father TEIGE and his brother ROWE M‘NAMARA.”

Memorial Type: 
Table tomb
Hide Grave location
County: 
Clare
Latitude: 
52.81905
Longitude: 
-8.8630055555556
People commemorated: 
Name: 
Matthw
Surname: 
MacNamara
Date of death - year: 
1560