Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveslab
Abbeyquarter North, County Sligo, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Abbeyquarter North
- County
- Sligo
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 54.27086, -8.47033
- SMR number
- SL014-065047-
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 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)
- 1904 · Sheet 4. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Located in the church of Sligo Dominican friary (SL014-065008-), on display on the N wall of the nave. Trapezoidal graveslab, bearing an inscription with the date '1723' or '1728'. However, the 18th-century inscription appears to have been carved over existing decoration, suggesting that the slab was re-used, and overall style of the graveslab also suggests an earlier date, perhaps in the 17th century. It would have been the lid of a coffin tomb. It is almost whole, except for a section of the top-right corner of the slab. All along the edge of the slabs are two grooves forming a shallow moulding, and it is similar in style and proportion to another graveslab, located in the S chapel of the church (SL014-065039-). While the surface is rather worn, it appears that some of the decoration included interlace-like design and the shaft of a cross, similar to another graveslab displayed on the N wall of the nave (SL014-065037-). The inscription is in English, and extends over eight lines, which read: 'Pray [for the] soul of Donogh, who dies the 22 of March, Anno Do. 1728 (or 1723)'.
Attached image:
SL014-065047-_01.JPG
Compiled by Anne-Julie Lafaye
Date of upload: 11 January 2023
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.