Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveslab
Athenry, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Athenry
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.29823, -8.74453
- SMR number
- GA084-001051-
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
Under the crossing tower of the Dominican church (GA084-001014-), close to its SW pier. This broken rectangular graveslab (surviving L 1.39m; Wth 0.89m; T 0.12m) bears ‘a cross pattée, with long stem, and a number of smith’s tools’ (Macalister 1913, 214, XIII, 219, Pl. IX, No. 13). Two bellows are visible on the dexter side, and on the sinister side there is an augur, pincers, anvil, horseshoe, and a hook-shaped object’. It is dated 1682 and an inscription at the top of the slab and sinister edge reads: ‘FOR THE VSE OF THOMAS TANIAN AND HIS (POSTERITY)’ (ibid.). (Bradley and Dunne 1992, 37)
The following images have been uploaded:
GA084-001051-_01.jpg
GA084-001051-_02.jpg
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 12 November 2018
References
Macalister, R.A.S. 1913 The Dominican church at Athenry. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 3, 197-222.
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 Unpublished report commissioned by the Office of Public Works, Dublin.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
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Religious house - Dominican friarsunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.