Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Memorial stone (present location)
Baunmore (athenry By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Baunmore (athenry By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.29149, -8.74601
- SMR number
- GA084-021001-
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
This memorial stone is set into the roadside face of the wall to the left of the gate leading into the church (GA084-021----). It consists of a rectangular plaque (H 0.43m; Wth 0.33m; T 0.13m) bearing a male figure standing with raised, spread arms in the top left quarter and a kneeling figure, in profile, with raised hands joined and looking towards the standing figure in the top right quarter. The figures appear to represent Christ on the cross and Mary alongside (Cody 1989, 381-2, no. 166). The lower half of the plaque bears the following inscription:
PRAY FOR THE SOUL
OF THOMAS [O'KELLY/O'REILLY?]
HIS WIFE MARY
HYNES & THEIR POS
TERITY WHO EREC[T]
ED THIS IMAGE IN R[E]
MEMBERANCE OF SA[I]
NT BRIDGET 1728
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 24 January 2020
References
Cody, E. 1989 An archaeological survey of the barony of Athenry, Co. Galway. Unpublished MA thesis, University College Galway.
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Bridgeunder 1 mi
- Enclosure - large enclosureunder 1 mi
- Bridgeunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.