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
- 53.29826, -8.74465
- SMR number
- GA084-001077-
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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
In the nave of the Dominican church (GA084-001014-), to the N of the middle wall monument (GA084-001071-). Described by Macalister (1913, 217, XXII) as a graveslab (L 1.93m; Wth across top 0.59m; Wth across base 0.52m; T 0.1m) inscribed with the following: 'Pray for | the soul | of William | Burke and | his wife | Anne alias | Ward and | their | Posterity' and dated to c. 1700.
The following image has been uploaded: GA084-001077-_01.jpg
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 13 November 2018
References
Macalister, R.A.S. 1913 Miscellanea: the stone of the "Seven Romans" on Aran Mór. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 43, 344.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.