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Graveslab

Cloghanower, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Graveslab, Cloghanower, County Galway, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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.

David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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 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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

Sites and Monuments Record data: National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Record text is reproduced unchanged. National Monuments Service, Government of Ireland · CC BY 4.0
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