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
- 53.38701, -9.07269
- SMR number
- GA069-001021-
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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 graveslab, which was brought to our attention by Dr Jim Higgins, Heritage Officer, Galway City Council, is one of 'two remarkable tombstones' (see also GA069-001022-) recorded by Wilde (1867, 69) that were discovered in the rubbish that had accumulated under the site of the chancel arch of the church (GA069-001013-). It consists of the roughly hewn upper fragment (L 0.74m; Wth 0.52m; T 0.007m) of the slab, which is now embedded in the ground in the NE corner of the nave. The face is decorated with a large fleur-de-lis motif with traces of a smaller decorative feature below this on the N side of the slab. The detail is very difficult to make out. Wilde's (ibid.) illustration indicates that there was also a corresponding decorative feature on the S side of the slab.
Updated by: Olive Alcock
Date of revised upload: 11 June 2018
The following image has been uploaded: GA069-001021-_05.jpg
References
Wilde, W. 1867 (Facsimile reprint 2002) Lough Corrib: its shores and islands. Betaprint, Dublin.
Nearby in the register
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Religious house - Augustinian canonsunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Round towerunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.