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Graveslab

Killimor And Boleybeg, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Graveslab, Killimor And Boleybeg, County Galway, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · 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

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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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