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Graveslab

Ross (Clare By.), County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Graveslab, Ross, County Galway, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Ross (Clare By.)
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.47945, -9.13160
SMR number
GA041-047006-

Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.

David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

This inscribed rectangular graveslab (L 1.64m; Wth at top 0.68m; 0.78m at bottom; T 0.12m), dated 1671, is on floor of the SE transept of the friary church (GA041-047----). It widens from the top of the slab to the bottom and it bears a Latin cross with straight terminals and a shaft that ends on a stepped base. It bears the following inscription, running around its edge: FOR THE SOULS OF JOHN T NUHIL AND HIS WIFE ONER MURISH 1671. Tools associated with a mason are evident on the lower right-hand side of the slab.

GA041-042006-_01.jpg View from S
GA041-042006-_02.jpg View from W

Compiled by: Olive Alcock

Date of upload: 25 July 2018

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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