Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveslab
Rathfran, County Mayo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Rathfran
- County
- Mayo
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.23798, -9.24411
- SMR number
- MA015-031006-
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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
Located within a church (MA015-031005-), mounted on E gable, on the S side of the window embrasure.
A trapezoidal-shaped slab, almost the entire surface of which is filled with finely executed, elaborate decoration in four panels, enclosed by an incised groove frame. Three panels are of dense, intricate foliage, and a fourth contains six animals, which appear to represent lions passant, arranged in three opposing pairs. A narrow plain band surrounds the decorated area, separating it from the finely moulded edges of the slab. There is no dedicatory inscription or date, but the style of carving suggests a 15th- or early 16th- century date. Blotches of lichen partly obscure the carving.
Attached images:
MA015-031006-_01.JPG -Graveslab
MA015-031006-_02.JPG -detail of carved animal
MA015-031006-_03.JPG -detail of carved foliage
Compiled by: Jane O’Shaughnessy
Date of upload: 13 December 2018
Nearby in the register
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Religious house - Dominican friarsunder 1 mi
- Historic townunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.