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Recorded monument · ME029-023015 · Co. Meath

Tomb – chest tomb at TOWN PARKS (Lune By.), Co. Meath (ME029-023015)

On the Sites and Monuments Record.

31 planning applications in the last 10 years fall inside this monument’s zone of notification, and 1 An Coimisiún Pleanála case touches it.

31
in the zone, 10 years
31
in the zone, all years
1
ACP cases in the zone
5
within 100 m, 10 years

Zone of notification 34.76 ha

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Planning applications in the zone of notification 31 applications in the last 10 years

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Appeals in the zone of notification 1 with An Coimisiún Pleanála

Building work started in the zone of notification 17 commencement notices

The record ME029-023015

SMR number
ME029-023015
Class
Tomb – chest tomb
Townland
TOWN PARKS (Lune By.), Co. Meath
Named on the OS map
Not indicated
National record
National Monuments Service record for ME029-023015

A chest tomb (dims 2m x 0.9m; H 0.9m) composed of plain limestone slabs on three sides abuts the S side of the wall in the graveyard (ME029-023012-) c. 5m S of the nave of the present Church of Ireland church. It has a large covering slab (dims 2.44m x 1.14m; T 0.1m) that has bevelled edges underneath on all sides except where it abuts the wall. The W end of the mensa has crests of Cusack and what must be Lutwidge. The incised inscription was recorded c. 1740 by Butler (1892-4, 166) and subsequently by FitzGerald (1908-09, 421), who describes it as: At the south-west side of the church is a high altar-tomb, which was completely covered with a thick growth of ivy. On cutting a small space on it, I discovered that the covering slab was lettered; and on removing the whole of the ivy, I saw that there were two crests and coat-of-arms at the upper end., and a long inscription in incised capitals below them. The latter was exceedingly hard to decipher, but I was able to make out the following: THIS TOMB WAS ERECTED / BY MR E*** CVSACK AND / MR WALTER LVTWIDGE FOR / THE VSE OF **** AND / THEIR **** EN / TH*R FAMILIES *** BE / LASTING (?) *** TO / BE CONTINVED FOR EVER / TO THE VSE OF THOSE OF / EITHER NAME WHO SHALL / CLAIM *** HERE LIETH / THE BODYS OF IOHN / LVTWIDGE AND ROBERT / LVTWIDGE BOTH LATE OF / ATHBOY TOGETHER WITH / THE REMAINS OF WALTER / LVTWIDGE LATE OF LACKIN / AND OF RICHARD LVTWIDGE / HIS SON DESESED THE 11 OF / IVNE 1702. This inscription I afterwards discovered had appeared on P 166 of vol. 2 of the Journal, from a copy made of it by Isaac Butler about the year 1740. Therein ‘Edward’ is stated to be the Christian name of the Cusack named in the second line, and the reading of the fourth and consecutive lines is given as: THE VSE OF THEM AND THEIR FAMILIES WHEN THEY SHALL BE EXTINCT THE SAME TO BE CONTINUED FOR EVER. Date of upload: 2 January, 2014

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Source: National Monuments Service, Sites and Monuments Record · fetched 27 Sept 2026

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