Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveslab
Eanach Dhúin, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Eanach Dhúin
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.38812, -9.07197
- SMR number
- GA069-001008-
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 the NE corner of an annexe off the S side of what is regarded as the earliest church (GA069-001007-) at Annaghdown (Harbison 1975, 81). This graveslab (L 1.87m; T 0.1m), which is broken into three pieces, tapers slightly from the E end (Wth 0.5m) to the W end (Wth 0.57m). Two incised lines running down the centre of the fragments open into a trefoil at the tip of the E fragment. A small incised triskele within a circle is visible to the S of the trefoil. The graveslab probably dates to between the late 15th and 16th centuries (pers. comm. J. Higgins, August 1988).
GA069-001008-_01.jpg View of graveslab from E
Updated by: Olive Alcock
Date of revised upload: 18 June 2018
References
Harbison, P. 1975 (2nd. ed. 1992 reprint) Guide to the national monuments in the Republic of Ireland. Gill and Macmillan, Dublin.
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Religious house - Augustinian nunsunder 1 mi
- Religious house - Premonstratensian canonsunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.