What is recorded here

Broken graveslab in the Dominican church at Athenry, County Galway. Two fragments survive, each bearing a raised cross stem and border, likely 13th or 14th century. The head and base are gone, but the marks still point downward into the floor, as if death itself had been carved before it was forgotten.

This tapering bevelled graveslab is in the nave of the Dominican church (GA084-001014-), to the N of the wall monument (GA084-001070-). The slab is incomplete – the head and base are missing. Both of the surviving fragments (upper fragment: L 0.59m; Wth across top 0.51m; base Wth 0.42m; lower fragment L 0.32m; Wth 0.32m; T 0.15m) are decorated with the raised stem of a cross and both have a raised border similar to another graveslab (see GA084-001034-) of 13th/14th-century date. The following images have been uploaded: GA084-001082-_01.jpg GA084-001082-_02.jpg Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 13 November 2018

Medieval Christian graveslab, 13th–15th century. It is significant as an example of ecclesiastical funerary art associated with the Dominican church in Athenry, reflecting the religious and social history of the medieval Irish Francophone aristocracy.

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