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
- 53.34681, -8.94468
- SMR number
- GA070-035018-
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 ground along the south wall of the nave of the friary (GA070-035001-). Described by Bradley and Dunne (1992, 61) as a broken 17th-century ‘cross-slab’ (L 0.71m; Wth 0.61m; T 0.11m) decorated with a cross in relief and bearing the following inscription:
PRAY FOR …/ VLES OF …./ ALY AND …/ …A..
On inspection in June 2018 a fragment of a slab close to the S wall of the nave roughly matched the dimensions of the slab recorded by Bradley and Dunne (ibid.), however, no trace of an inscription was evident on it.
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 Unpublished report commissioned by the Office of Public Works, Dublin.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.