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Graveslab

Strade, County Mayo, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Graveslab, Strade, County Mayo, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Strade
County
Mayo
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.92140, -9.12878
SMR number
MA070-067004-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: 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

Located in Strade Dominican friary (MA070-067001-), one of a group of five (see also MA070-067007- to MA070-067010-) displayed against the S wall of the chancel. This graveslab (L 1.9m), which is tapered or wedge-shaped with chamfered sides, was the lid of a coffin-tomb. It is nearly fully intact, missing only its lower right-hand corner, and possibly part of its lower extremity, where the edge appears raw and is not chamfered. It bears a large bottonée or foliated cross in low relief, with the top and arms of the cross terminating in trefoils. Two additional arms placed at a diagonal, angled upwards, are placed roughly centrally on the shaft of the cross, also terminating in trefoils; these are unusual features and it has been suggested that they may have been designed to represent the Christ's arms on the cross (McDermott 2009, 99). The foliated cross is a design typical of Anglo-Norman tombs; it has been found in Bannow, Co. Wexford (WX044-045007-) and Kilkenny Dominican friary (KK019-026021-) and suggests a thirteenth-century date for the grave-slab (McDermott 2009, 100). At least two of the other grave-slabs (MA070-067009-; MA070-067010-) at Strade bear a similar design.

Attached image:
MA070-067004-_01.JPG

Compiled by: Anne-Julie Lafaye

Date of upload: 29 September 2020

References

McDermott, Y. 2009 Strade Friary: Patronage and development at a medieval mendicant friary. Cathair na Mart 27, 92-108.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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