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" It was erected by Martin Nangle, Esq., eldest son of 

 Patrick Nangle, Baron of the Navan, by his wife, Genet, 

 daughter of Martin Blake, of Athboy, in that county, who 

 died before his father in 1585. He was married to Alson, 

 daughter of Sir Francis Herbert, of Ballycotland, in the 

 county of Kildare, ancestor to the Herberts of Durrow, by 

 ■whom he had Sir Thomas Nangle, Baron of the Navan, who 

 succeeded his grandfather, Patrick, on his death in 1595. 

 Nicholas Herbert, eldest son of Sir Francis, married Cathe- 

 rine, sister of said Martin Nangle. 



** I have made a rough sketch of what remains of the in- 

 scriptions on each side of the stone, to which I now refer. 



" No. I. contains a shield of the arms of Martin Nangle, 

 impaled with those of his wife, viz. : first and fourth azure, 

 three lozenges in fess or, for Nangle ; second and third argent 

 a fess between five martlets, three in chief, and two in base 

 gules, for Dowdall. 



" Impaled with per pale, azure and gules, three lions 

 rampant, two and one, argent, within a border gobony, ar- 

 gent and sable, for Herbert.* 



" Over the shield are the names nangle and harbart. 



" No. II. is the following inscription : — 



10 



SVLINVS 

 DE ANGVLO 

 THE FIRST 

 BARRON OF 

 THE NOVAN. 

 IS 



IS= 



GIVE 

 HIM BY SIB 

 HVGHE 

 DE L CIE 



' The colours or border are not represented on the stone. 



