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Wall monument

Eyrecourt Demesne, County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Wall monument, Eyrecourt Demesne, 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
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-

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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

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

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

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