Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Memorial stone
An Cnoc Buí, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- An Cnoc Buí
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.35260, -9.83790
- SMR number
- GA064-003----
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
In a small tree plantation in bogland. This inscribed plaque was recorded by Robinson (1985, 20-21) who noted it below a pigeon loft in one of the gable walls of a building that had formerly been stables but was subsequently converted into an L-shaped house. The inscription reads:
'Remember as you pass Cecil Coulter and Louisa Alice his wife
who in this place 1918-1946 met sorrow and adversity with fortitude and
all who came their way with loving kindness and who in their day by
their vision and their labours made this wilderness a place of beauty.'
Their memorial tablet in Roundstone Protestant church (GA050-024001-), which mentions their son, Conrad Coryton, who was killed in World War I aged nineteen, may explain their sorrow (ibid.).
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 16 February 2023
Robinson, T. 1985 Mapping South Connemara, parts 1-29, Cashal, Carna, Cill Chiarain. Roundstone.
References
Robinson, T. 1985 Mapping South Connemara, parts 1-29, Cashal, Carna, Cill Chiarain. Roundstone.
Nearby in the register
- Kiln - limeunder 1 mi
- Road - gravel/stone trackway - peatlandunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.