[Two monuments in St Mary’s Cathedral, Limerick]

Artist(s) : Thomas Dineley (Draughtsman)

Pen and Ink drawing of two monuments in St Mary’s Cathedral, Limerick, with inscriptions. The upper one, a mural monument surmounted by an obelisk and flaming heart, commemorates Bishop Bernard Adams; the lower one is the tomb of Bishop Cornelius O’Dea, with a high relief sculpture of the Bishop in robes and mitre recumbent on his sepulchre.

Inscribed in Image

Text within boundaries of image –
BARHARDUS IACET
HIC EN ADAMVS
EPISCOPUS OLIM OMNIA
NON VIDIT
SOLOMONIS AT
OMNIA VANA.

Sufficient Gold did give me which I spent,
I little borrow’d and as little lent
I left them whom I lov’d, enough in store
Increast this Bishoprick releiv’d the Poor.
NEMO MIHI TUMBAM
STATUAT DE MARMO

HAEC EST EFFIGIES REVERENDISSIMI VIRI CORNELII O DAE QVONDAM EPISCO
PI LYMERICENSIS QVI AD MONVMENTVM HOC NOVUM EPISCOPORUM LYMERICENSIU [tilde on u]
AD PERPETUANDAM MEMORIAM ET HONOREM TANTI PRAESULIS TRANSLATUS
FUIT UT HIC CUM FRATRIBUS SUIS REQUIESCERET XIV DIE IUNII AN^o DNI [tilde on i]
M D C XXI

REMOTUS HUC FUIT SUMPTIBUS NOBILISSIMI HEROIS DONATI
COMITIS THOMONIAE TUNC HONORATISSIMI DOMINI PRAESIDENTIS
PROVINCIAE MOMONIAE.

Image Details

Genre	Scientific or Technical illustration
Technique	Pen and ink drawings
Subject(s)	Antiquities and archaeological sites, Architecture
Geographical Location	St Mary's Cathedral, Limerick - Named locality Limerick - Town or city Limerick - County Munster - Province
Keywords(s)	Archaeological sites, Hats, Inscriptions, Men, Monuments & memorials, People, Sculpture, Tombs & sepulchral monuments
Colour	Monochrome
Dimensions	12.4 cm x 14.3 cm
Published / created	1681

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. 133
Source copy	National Library of Ireland MS 392
Permalink	https://ttce.universityofgalway.ie/irelandillustrated/?id=ii_image_1374516992&object_type=image&ttce_function=5
Rights	Courtesy of the National Library of Ireland

Related text from travel account

St Johns having nothing in it worth of note but one monument of Thomas Power. I returne to the Cathedrall where neer the Altar, between that and the Bishops seat, observe the remains of the [p. 133] two famous Bipps of this Diocess. the One being being [sic] built in the wall and the other being the statue of Bip O Dae conserved by the Great Donah O’Brien who erected the Monuments underneath to his Memory. In Black marble with an Inscripcon in Letters of Gould.
[image: Two Monuments in St Mary’s Cathedral, Limerick]
That which is cutt off by the narrownes or obscurity of the upper draught is thus in its propper character
Sufficient God did give me which I spent
I little borrow’d and as little lent
I left them whom I lov’d enough in store
Increast this Bishoprick releiv’d the Poor
[p. 134]
NEMO MIHI TUMBAM STATUAT DE MARMORE FAXIT
URNULA EPISCOPULO SATIS SATIS ISTA PUSILLA PUSILLO
ANGLI QUIS VIVUS FUERAM ET TESTENTUR HYBERNI
COELICOLI QUIS SIM DEFUNCTUS TESTIFICENTUR.

This Inscripcon relates not to this Tombstone but y^e last monument of Bishop Barhard being the last but one. [pp. 132-134]