A tombstone in Sligo Abbey
by RicardMN Photography
Title
A tombstone in Sligo Abbey
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RicardMN Photography
Medium
Photograph - Photograph, Photography
Description
A tombstone with inscription in Sligo Abbey, Ireland.
The inscription says:
"IHS
The prayers of the Fairhfull are
Requested for the reposo of the
Soul of Elenor Murphy alias
O Connor who departed his life the 16
of Janry 1827 aged 69 years.
This tomb was Erected by her
Husband John Murphy of Sligo".
Sligo Abbey (Irish: Mainistir Shligigh), a ruined abbey in Sligo, Ireland, (officially called the Dominican Friary of Sligo) was originally built in 1253 by the order of Maurice Fitzgerald, Baron of Offaly. It was destroyed in 1414 by a fire, ravaged during the Nine Years' War in 1595 and once more in 1641 during the Ulster Uprising. The friars moved out in the 18th century, but Lord Palmerston restored the Abbey in the 1850s.
Known locally as the Abbey, the site contains a great wealth of carvings including Gothic and Renaissance tomb sculpture, well preserved cloister and the only sculptured 15th century high altar to survive in any Irish monastic church.
It appears in two short stories by William Butler Yeats: "The Crucifixion of the Outcast", set in the Middle Ages, and "The Curse of the Fires and of the Shadows" describing its destruction in 1641.
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February 14th, 2017
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