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
- 53.29829, -8.74481
- SMR number
- GA084-001055-
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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
This rectangular graveslab (L 1.56m; Wth at top 0.74m; Wth at base 0.69m; T 0.11m) is at the W end of the aisle of the Dominican church (GA084-001014-) and is the third slab in a row of four – moving north-south from the N wall. The bottom left side is broken. An inscription running around its edges was transcribed by Macalister (1913, 215, XV, Fig. 8 No. 15) as: '(PRAY F) OR THE SOVLES OF HVGH HIGENN AND NOVLLE CONENN HIS WIFE AND HIS SON THO(M) AS HIGENN AND DONELL HIGENN AND THIRE POSTERTY 1684'. Within the frame provided by the inscription, the occupational symbols of a ploughman, a plough sock and coulter, are visible. (Bradley and Dunne 1992, 38-9)
The following image has been uploaded: GA084-001055-_01.jpg
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 12 November 2018
References
Bradley, J. and Dunne, N. 1992b Urban archaeological survey - county Galway. Unpublished report commissioned by the Office of Public Works, Dublin.
Macalister, R.A.S. 1913 The Dominican church at Athenry. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 3, 197-222.
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.