[Monument of Maurice Hurley]

Artist(s) : Thomas Dineley (Draughtsman)

Sketch of sepulchral monument of Maurice Hurley in Emly Cathedral, with inscriptions and coat of arms.

Inscribed in Image

Text within boundaries of image – INRI
[parts of the inscriptions transcribed in the main text]

Image Details

Genre	Scientific or Technical illustration
Technique	Pen and ink drawings
Subject(s)	Antiquities and archaeological sites, Architecture
Geographical Location	Old Cathedral, Emly - Named locality Tipperary - County Munster - Province
Keywords(s)	Archaeological sites, Emblems, Heraldic devices, Inscriptions, Tombs & sepulchral monuments
Colour	Monochrome
Dimensions	10.8 cm x 7.5 cm
Published / created	1681
Closely related image:	Imolachum or Emly – Monument in Emly Cathedral –

Bibliographical Details

Travel Account	Observations in a Voyage through the Kingdom of Ireland
Contributor(s)	Thomas Dineley — Role: Author of travel text Thomas Dineley — Role: Draughtsman
Print or manuscript	Manuscript
Location of image in copy	p. 120
Source copy	National Library of Ireland MS 392
Permalink	https://ttce.universityofgalway.ie/irelandillustrated/?id=ii_image_1374493477&object_type=image&ttce_function=5
Rights	Courtesy of the National Library of Ireland

Related text from travel account

Emley sheweth nothing but three monuments, one whereof is of Grey marble arched on the left hand going up to the altar; the second is this on the right hand sayd to belong to the Pillins a family now extinct. and the third adjoining to this and which I have drawn underneath belonged to Maurice Hurley Esq^r.
[images: monuments]
This Monument is seen at the East end of the Abbey Ch. on the left hand of the Altar and opposite to the Pulpit with this Inscripcon in Roman Capitall Letters on black marble whereof the whole monument is made.
[p. 121] PERILLUSTRIS Dominus Dnus MAURITIUS HURLAEUS armiger Monumentum Hoc sibi suisq; charissimis conjugibus GRAINAE HOGANAE & GRACIAE THORNETONAE totique posteritati posuit elaborarique fecit.
HIC JACET HOSPITII COLUMEM PIETATIS ASYLUM, A.D. 1632.
INGENIO CLARUS, CLARUS ET ELOQUIO

LAUS PATRIAE, LITUM SUPPRESSOR, PACIS AMATOR,
REGULA JUSTITIAE, RELIGIONIS EBUR
HOSTIBUS HURLAEUS FUIT HOSTIS, AMICUS AMICIS,
MAURITIUS MODERANS TEMPORA TEMPORIBUS
FAX FIDEI, FULCRUM MISERORUM, GEMMA VIRORUM,
STEMMATIS ANTIQUAE GLORIA MAGNA SUAE,
HUIC DECUS, HUIC PROBITAS, SORS CORPORIS INTEGRA, MILLE
NATURAE DOTES, UNICUS OMNE CAPIT,
VIXISTI MUNDO VIVES IN SECULA VIVIS
FORTUNA FELIX PROLE PEREXIMIA,
EKGO VIVE DEO, VIVE CUI VIVERE VITA EST
SIC TIBl DANTE DEO VITA PERENNIS ERIT.
Underneath this read also in Roman Capitalls,
SUMPTIBUS HURLAEI FABRICARUNT HOC MONUMENTUM
PATRICIUS KEARING NICOLAUSQUE COWLEY.
[pp. 120-121]