Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Wall monument
Eyrecourt Demesne, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Eyrecourt Demesne
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.20064, -8.12656
- SMR number
- GA108-089002-
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
This framed wall monument is in the N wall of the church (GA108-089----). It commemorates the founder 'Johanes Eyre' and bears the following inscription (O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 2 22):
Johanes Eyre de Eyr-court
Armiger proprys sumptibus
ad honorem cultvmque divin
um hanc edificavit ecclesia
am, Anno Domini, 1677.
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 17 February 2020
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
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.