Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Wall monument
Baile Chláir, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Baile Chláir
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.34684, -8.94443
- SMR number
- GA070-035011-
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
Inserted into the base of a window in the N wall of the chancel of the friary (GA070-035001-), to the W of the tomb niche (GA070-035008-). Described by Bradley and Dunne (1992, 59) as a mural plaque (L 1.3m; Wth 0.76m; T 0.08m) decorated with a chalice and host above the following inscription:
IHS CHRISTE FILI DEI VIVI/ MISERERE NOBIS
ONE AVE MARIA FOR THE/ SOVLES OF THE REVEREND/ FATHERS
GYLDAS BRVOD=/ ER AND LAGHLEN QVELY/ WHO ERECTED THIS
TOMB/ FOR THEMSELVES IN/ OCTOBER ANNO MONINI/ 1676
A similarly decorated slab (GA070-035010-) is also visible in the E wall of the N transept.
The following image has been uploaded: GA070-035011-_01.jpg
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 17 July 2018
References
Bradley, J. and Dunne, N. 1992b Urban archaeological survey - county Galway. Unpublished report commissioned by the Office of Public Works, Dublin.
Nearby in the register
- Wall monumentunder 1 mi
- Wall monumentunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.