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
- 54.23803, -9.24411
- SMR number
- MA015-031007-
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
Located within a church (MA015-031005-) mounted on the E gable, on the N side of the window embrasure. A trapezoidal-shaped limestone slab, broadest at top. On it is carved in false relief, a shafted cross, with the crossing of the arms enclosed within a circle. The arms and shaft have expanded terminals. The arms extend the full width of the slab; the shaft extends almost the full length of the slab. Flanking the shaft is an inscription carved in false relief: on one side of the shaft, is a decorative IHS, and on the other, a Latin inscription extending in two vertical lines, which reads: IOHANNES O MMNILA ME FIERI FECIT 1618.
Attached images:
MA015-031007-_01.JPG -Graveslab
MA015-031006-_02.JPG -detail of carving
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.