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Graveslab

Kinvarra (Kiltartan By.), County Galway, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Graveslab, Kinvarra, 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
Kinvarra (Kiltartan By.)
County
Galway
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.13917, -8.93681
SMR number
GA113-139002-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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

Within the interior of St Coman's medieval church (GA113-139---). This is one of three graveslabs (see also GA113-139003- and GA113-139004-) recorded by Carey (2008, 26) ‘that may date to the sixteenth century. The three rectangular slabs are each incised with ring-headed, long stemmed crosses with stepped bases. One of these slabs (GA113-139003-) has been reused and bears the date 1818'. This graveslab is numbered 38 on the plan (ibid., 23, Fig. 2).

Compiled by: Olive Alcock

Date of upload: 9 April 2020

References

Carey, A. 2008 St. Coman's Church, Kinvara. Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society 60, 22-31.

Nearby in the register

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

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