Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Wall monument
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
- 53.47944, -9.13181
- SMR number
- GA041-047007-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 memorial slab (Wth 0.77m; H 0.36m) is located in the S wall of the chapel known as ‘Jenning’s Chantry’, to the W of the double transept off the nave of the friary church (GA041-0047----). It bears the following inscription:
PRAY FOR SORACHA JONIN
WHO BVILT THIS CHAPP
ELL FOR HER SELF HER HV
SBAND THO:KIEVACH: IO
NIN AND HER SONNE DAVID
IN THE YEARE 1678
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Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 25 July 2018
Nearby in the register
- Crossunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Wall monumentunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.