Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveslab
Abbeyland South, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Abbeyland South
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.61815, -8.74133
- SMR number
- GA017-005005-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
This 17th-century rectangular graveslab (L 1.8m; Wth 0.65m) is lying recumbent in the chancel of the church (GA017-005001-). It bears the following inscription, which was recorded by Bradley and Dunne (1992, 70):
HERE LYETH TH/ E BODY OF ANN/ N..XODE WHO/ DEPARTED
THIS/ LIFE XRE THE 12/ ANNO DNI 1691/ … H THE/ SO…S
MVX/ OE…ANO/ D …./ PS
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 24 May 2018
References
Bradley, J. and Dunne, N. 1992b Urban archaeological survey - county Galway. Unpublished report commissioned by the Office of Public Works, Dublin.
Nearby in the register
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Religious house - Augustinian friarsunder 1 mi
- Wall monumentunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.