Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Wall monument
Kinvarra (Kiltartan By.), County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kinvarra (Kiltartan By.)
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.13916, -8.93688
- SMR number
- GA113-139006-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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----). Above a small alcove at the E end of the N wall is an inscribed slab dated 1678. It bears an incomplete inscription that reads 'This tomb was erected' (Carey 2008, 24).
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.