Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveslab
Ross (clare By.), County Galway, Ireland
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 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 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
- Wall monumentunder 1 mi
- Wall monumentunder 1 mi
- Crossunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.