CO-SMCY-0805

Record Date: 
9 August 2013
Graveyard: 
Collegiate Church of Saint Mary
Memorial Type: 
Wall or mural tablet
Grave location
County: 
Cork
Latitude: 
51.955073429952
Longitude: 
-7.8534811699989
Number of people commemorated: 
1
People commemorated: 
Title: 
Alderman
Name: 
William
Surname: 
Lewellin
Date of death - day: 
4
Date of death - month: 
May
Date of death - year: 
1628
Notes: 

Dineley's "Observations on a Journey" in 1681 records this memorial as having the epitaph " Here lyeth the body of William Lewellin Esquire sometimes Alderman of this town, who departed this life the fowrth day of May in the years of our lord  1628.

In Samuel Hayman's " Ecclesiastical Antiquities of Youghal" 1854, the monument to William Lewellin is described thus:" A large mural monument, to the memory of William Lewellin, was erected within  the arch in 1628, and the window was partly built up to support his effigy."

A recent plaque placed here reads "William Lewellin Mayor of Youghal 1620.Obit 1628."

The fourth photograph is of the page in DIneley's work in which he has sketched the monument to William Lewellin.