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
- 53.34683, -8.94463
- SMR number
- GA070-035020-
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
Recorded by Bradley and Dunne (1992, 61-2) at the friary (GA070-035001-) and described as a 17th-century slab (L 1.92m; Wth 0.84m) that was reused in 1867 when a new inscription was cut across the earlier one. An inscription reads:
PRAY FO[R THE] SOVLS/ OF IAM[ES] & MAT/ THEW …
There is no clear indication as to where this slab is located and on inspection in June 2018 it could not be identified.
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 Unpublished report commissioned by the Office of Public Works, Dublin.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
- Religious house - Franciscan friarsunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.