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Graveslab in Athenry

Graveslab

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Graveslab in Athenry, County Galway, Ireland. This graveslab was decorated with a plough-sock and coulter and bore the following marginal inscription: PRAY FOR THE SOVLES OF HUGH/ THOMAS/ DERMAD AND EDMVND FYNNE AND/ THIR POSTERITIE 1684 (Bradley and Dunne 1992, 38). Not located.
This graveslab was decorated with a plough-sock and coulter and bore the following marginal inscription: PRAY FOR THE SOVLES OF HUGH/ THOMAS/ DERMAD AND EDMVND FYNNE AND/ THIR POSTERITIE 1684 (Bradley and Dunne 1992, 38). Not located. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 12 November 2018
A 17th-century Christian gravestone; significant for its agricultural iconography and marginal inscription recording the names and wishes of the deceased.

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