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
- 53.29817, -8.74427
- SMR number
- GA084-001080-
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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 graveslab is now stored in the SE corner of the sacristy of the Dominican church (GA084-001014-). The slab is broken at both ends but the surviving tapering fragment (H 0.6m; Wth across the top 0.49m; base Wth 0.46m; T 0.09m) is incised with the shaft of a cross .
The following image has been uploaded: GA084-001080-_01.jpg
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 13 November 2018
Nearby in the register
- Crossunder 1 mi
- Wall monumentunder 1 mi
- Wall monumentunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.