Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveslab
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
- 53.34679, -8.94443
- SMR number
- GA070-035012-
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
Located on the floor of the chancel of the friary (GA070-035001-), adjacent to the piscina and sedilla in the S wall. Described by Bradley and Dunne (1992, 59) as a slab (L 1.19m; Wth 0.97m) bearing the following inscription:
PRAY FOR THE SOVL/ OF FIAGHY BVRKE/ AND ALL HIS WHOLE/
POSTERITIE WHO DI/RECTED THS TOMB/ IN THE YEARE/ 1683
The following image has been uploaded: GA070-035012-_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 Unpublished report commissioned by the Office of Public Works, Dublin.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
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Wall monumentunder 1 mi
- Wall monumentunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.