[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 – <br>BARHARDUS IACET <br>HIC EN ADAMVS <br>EPISCOPUS OLIM OMNIA <br>NON VIDIT <br>SOLOMONIS AT <br>OMNIA VANA. <br><br>Sufficient Gold did give me which I spent, <br>I little borrow’d and as little lent <br>I left them whom I lov’d, enough in store <br>Increast this Bishoprick releiv’d the Poor. <br>NEMO MIHI TUMBAM <br>STATUAT DE MARMO <br><br>HAEC EST EFFIGIES REVERENDISSIMI VIRI CORNELII O DAE QVONDAM EPISCO<br>PI LYMERICENSIS QVI AD MONVMENTVM HOC NOVUM EPISCOPORUM LYMERICENSIU [tilde on u] <br>AD PERPETUANDAM MEMORIAM ET HONOREM TANTI PRAESULIS TRANSLATUS <br>FUIT UT HIC CUM FRATRIBUS SUIS REQUIESCERET XIV DIE IUNII AN<sup>o</sup> DNI [tilde on i] <br>M D C XXI<br><br>REMOTUS HUC FUIT SUMPTIBUS NOBILISSIMI HEROIS DONATI <br>COMITIS THOMONIAE TUNC HONORATISSIMI DOMINI PRAESIDENTIS <br>PROVINCIAE MOMONIAE.

Image Details

Genre Scientific or Technical illustration
Technique Pen and ink drawings
Subject(s) Antiquities and archaeological sites, Architecture
Geographical Location
  • Limerick – County
  • Limerick – Town or city
  • Munster – Province
  • St Mary's Cathedral, Limerick – Named locality
Keyword(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)
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/view/image/ii_image_1374516992
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. <br>[image: Two Monuments in St Mary’s Cathedral, Limerick] <br>That which is cutt off by the narrownes or obscurity of the upper draught is thus in its propper character <br>Sufficient God did give me which I spent<br>I little borrow’d and as little lent <br>I left them whom I lov’d enough in store <br>Increast this Bishoprick releiv’d the Poor <br>[p. 134]<br> NEMO MIHI TUMBAM STATUAT DE MARMORE FAXIT <br>URNULA EPISCOPULO SATIS SATIS ISTA PUSILLA PUSILLO <br>ANGLI QUIS VIVUS FUERAM ET TESTENTUR HYBERNI <br>COELICOLI QUIS SIM DEFUNCTUS TESTIFICENTUR. <br><br>This Inscripcon relates not to this Tombstone but y<sup>e</sup> last monument of Bishop Barhard being the last but one. [pp. 132-134]
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