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Graveslab

Athenry, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Graveslab, Athenry, County Galway, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Athenry
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.29827, -8.74459
SMR number
GA084-001065-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

This tapering graveslab was recorded by Macalister (1913, 218, Pl. VIII, No. 8) who noted that it had been used twice. The original slab bore an incised cross on a calvary of three steps with the occupational symbols for a ploughman: a plough sock on the dexter side of the stem of the cross and a coulter on the sinister side. The head of the cross was subsequently chiselled away and the following inscription was added: 'Lord have |mercy on the | Soul of Mary | Kennamore | wife to Iohn Ha | nly who died Nov | 1792 Aged 49 | years'. The slab was located in front of the westernmost wall monument (GA084-001070-) in the S wall of the nave. It could not be located on inspection in October 2018. (Bradley and Dunne 1992, 40-41)

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 Unpublished report commissioned by the Office of Public Works, Dublin.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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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