Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveslab
Bunatober, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bunatober
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.43074, -9.02036
- SMR number
- GA056-034001-
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
Built into the wall enclosing a holy well (GA056-034002-), this graveslab bears the following inscription:
1706 IHS MARIA
PRAY FOR THE
SOUL OF JAMES
KIRWAN WHO
DYED 27 SEP
ANNO DNI 1693
PRAY FOR THE
SOUL OF MONICA
KIRWAN WIFE TO
? JAMES
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 10 February 2023
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Designed landscape - tree-ringunder 1 mi
- Kiln - limeunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.