Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveslab
Cloghanower, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cloghanower
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.44982, -9.08789
- SMR number
- GA056-055004-
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
This 17th-century graveslab is set into the external face of the enclosing wall of the graveyard (GA056-055002-) associated with the medieval church (GA056-055001-) that is roughly centrally located within it. It is located to to the W of the original entrance gateway at the WNW end of the wall. The top of the slab is decorated with the IHS monogram and a Latin cross rises from the bar of the letter H. Below it is the following inscription (details provided by Dr C. Cunniffe):
PRAY FOR YE SOVL
OF FA CARBRY KEA
NVAN V G T WHO
DYED YE 25TH SEPT
EMBER ANO DNI 161(?)
HIS ANCESTORS WHO
CAVSED THIS MON
VMENT TO BE MADE
Another graveslab is set into the wall to the S of the gateway but its inscription is illegible.
The following image, courtesy of Dr C. Cunniffe, has been uploaded: GA056-055004-_01.jpg
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 25 July 2023
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.