Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Memorial stone
Kilcaimin, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilcaimin
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.23956, -8.94379
- SMR number
- GA095-051002-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Holt (244) recorded a 'small tablet' on the ground close to the N wall of the medieval church (GA095-051----). A packing of stones around it suggested it had been intentionally fixed in that place. The slab bore the following inscription:
IH S
PRAYERFORT
HESOULOFVN
YKENNYWH
ODEYEDTHE14
OFFEB 1687
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 20 February 2020
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- House - 18th/19th centuryunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.