Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveslab
Portumna Demesne, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Portumna Demesne
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.08599, -8.21756
- SMR number
- GA127-019006-
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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 fractured recumbent graveslab (L 2.14m; Wth across top 0.79m; base Wth 0.74m; T 0.07m) is on the floor of the S transept of the friary church (GA127-019----). It bears a stepped Latin cross in false relief. The head and arms consist of a central lozenge which end in fleur-de-lis motifs. An IHS monogram fills the centre of the lozenge and a small cross rises from the cross-bar of the letter H. The shaft and base are undecorated. An inscription below the cross read:
HERE LYETH THE BOD
Y OF DERMOT MEAGH
ER OF CLONCR?? IN
WHO DYED THE 27 D
AY OF APRIL 1681
The following images have been uploaded:
GA127-019006-_01.jpg
GA127-019006-_02.jpg
GA127-019006-_03.jpg
Compiled by: Olive Alcock
Date of upload: 1 May 2019
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.