What is recorded here
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.
The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.
- What survives
- Recorded monument
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