Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Wall monument
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
- GA127-019007-
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 wall monument (Wth 0.65m; H 0.62m) is the lower one of two (see also GA127-019010-) which are set into the N wall of the chancel of the friary church (GA127-019----), immediately to the E of the doorway leading to the sacristy. An inscription carved in relief reads:
PRAY FOR THE SOV
LES OF PATRICKE CA
NVAN & CLARA CA
NVAN, HIS WIFE, W=
HO RAISED THIS M=
ONVMENT FOR TH=
EMSELVES & THEIRE
POSTERITY 1688
The following images have been uploaded:
GA127-019007-_01.jpg
GA127-019007-_02.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.