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
- 53.47964, -9.13151
- SMR number
- GA041-047012-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Located in the N wall of the chancel of the friary church (GA041-047----). A moulded arch (Wth 2.77m) framed by decorative pinnacles is part of a wall monument dating to the late 15th/16th century. A later table tomb in front of it incorporates it as a decorative background (http://monastic.ie/history/ross-errilly-franciscan-friary/ last accessed 26 July 2018).
GA041-047012-_01.jpg Overall view of wall monument from S
GA041-047012-_02.jpg Detail of decorative moulding
GA041-047012-_03.jpg Detail of decorative moulding
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 26 July 2018
Nearby in the register
- Wall monumentunder 1 mi
- Religious house - Franciscan friarsunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
- Fontunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.