Friday 2 October 2020

A Medieval Inscription of the O'Meara Clan at Toomevara

 


The O'Meara Inscription on Toomevara Priory. I've made an attempt at highlighting it as best as I could in the picture attached. I've done it purely from the photo so there may be some errors.

Rev. John Gleeson in 1915 pg 469 gives the following which he says "A returned America, Mr. Michael O'Meara, late of Bawn, took a cast of the inscription, and submitted it to an expert, as follows :-
"Clara Meara dum Tamulo
Jacet haec progago,
Cui aether Precibus Paude,
Viator Iter Gulielmo
-Undecipherable-
Helene Burc Paude
Cruoris iter-illa via me
Ritis stravit sedes Terra er
Apcit marmor eu haec lec
Tor sit Tibi testis Or,
1664, Educet Malo"

I can make out a lot of it but the 1664 line at the end seems to be missing now?

From archaeology.ie, it is thought to translate as

"While the renowned offspring of O'Meara reposes in this tomb. To whom O Traveller happily open Heaven by thy prayer. To William. To Ellen Bourke open heaven. By the merits of his blood he made possible that path. He snatched thrones from earth. Let this marble be a witness to thee O reader, 1664 henceforth from Evil".

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