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Title: Abbey Leix House, Abbeyleix, County Laois - Effigy of Malachy MacOwny O'More
Author: Rae, Edwin
Issue Date: 2009
Description: (handwritten on back of image): c321, Abbeyleix, Co. Laois: De Vesci gardens: Tomb of Melaghlin O'More: Middle (stamp on back: A703)
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2262/35046
Role: Collector
Culture: Irish
Material (Support): stone
Period: Late Medieval
Work: sculpture
Appears in Collections: TRIARC - Edwin Rae Collection (Digital Image Collection)

Abbey Leix House, Abbeyleix, County Laois - Effigy of Malachy MacOwny O'More
Created on: 1502
(handwritten on back of image): c/320, Fig. 13, Abbeyleix, Co. Laois: Gisant of Melachlin O'More: Detail (multiple images on file)
Collection Edwin Rae Collection (TRIARC, TCD)
Partner Trinity College Dublin
Creator Rae, Edwin
Contributor(s) Irish Research Council for Humanities and Social Sciences

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19Km South West of the Rock of Dunamase to the site of the great Abbey of ABBEYLEIX county Laois and an O'More ( O'Moore ) connection.
The Abbey of Leix was founded in the year 600. In 1183 it was refounded by Cocegher O'More. St. Canice occasionally resided here. There are no ruins of the abbey or of the castle, so it cannot be ascertained where either of them originally stood, but in the old village, which has been demolished, many stones of antique and peculiar workmanship were found which evidently belonged to the Abbey; and in Lord De Vesci's garden is the supposed site of the Abbey.
Close to the Abbey was the burial place of the O'Mores. A box tomb still remains. On it is a full size recumbent effigy in armour, with an inscription around the margin in Gothic lettering, in Latin, translated "Malachy O'More, Prince of Leix. May he rest in peace. Amen, 1486."
A slab tomb has a floreated cross on top and a similar inscription - "Here lieth John O'More, A.D., 1502." An ancient Baptismal Font, circular in form, and composed of granite, remains beside these tombs.

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Melaghlin m'Owny O'More (abt. 1440 - bef. 1502)
The Effigy of Melaghlin mac Owny O'More, Chief of Leix, Lying in Lord de Vesci's Garden at Abbeyleix". The effigy itself dates from 1502, although another source (see Mathews excerpt in previous comment, below) places his death year as 1486