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
- GA127-019009-
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 framed wall monument (Wth 0.77m; H 0.69m) is set into the S wall of the nave of the friary church (GA127-019----), just outside the S transept. It bears the following inscription:
THIS MONVMENT WAS
RAISED BY THOMAS HIG
GISON: FOR HIS PARENTS
VALENTINE HIGGISON &
MARY HIGGISON & THE=
IR POSTERITY, FOREVER
1688, PRAY, FOR THEM
The following image has been uploaded: GA127-019009-_01.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.