Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
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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, -8.94453
- SMR number
- GA070-035015-
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; 0.4m from the S wall of the chancel of the friary (GA070-035001-). Described by Bradley and Dunne (1992, 60) as a wedge-shaped bevelled slab (L 1.5m; Wth at top 0.43m tapering to 0.31 at base; T 0.16m) decorated with a plough and bearing the following marginal inscription:
PRAY FOR THE SOVLE OF DANIEL MVNIGH/ AN AND HIS WIFE
IOAN FAHY AND HIS SON/ HVGH MVNIGHAN 1696 IHS
The following image has been uploaded: GA070-035015-_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 Unpublished report commissioned by the Office of Public Works, Dublin.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
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.