Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveslab
Killimor And Boleybeg, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killimor And Boleybeg
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not idicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.16710, -8.30237
- SMR number
- GA107-109002-
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 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Within the NE corner of the church (GA107-109----). Noted in the OS Letters (O’Flanagan 1927, Vol. 2, 74-5), this 17th-century graveslab (overall L 1.84m; max. Wth 0.66m tapering to 0.37) is broken in three pieces. It is dated 164? and depicts a cross, the head of which consists of an open lozenge that expands into fleur-de-lis terminals. The shaft stands on a stepped Calvary base. An incomplete inscription in running along the sides and shaft reads:
[TH]IS STONE WAS MADE FOR
THOMAS ?GE TRESSY ?
FOR HIS SON [WIL]LIAM ??
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 2 March 2020
The following images have been uploaded:
GA107-109002-_01.jpg
GA107-109002-_02.jpg
References
O'Flanagan, Rev. M. (Compiler) 1927 Letters containing information relative to the antiquities of the county of Galway collected during the progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1839. Typescript in 3 vols. Bray.
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Crossunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.