What is recorded here

Graveslab in Coad marks the buried bodies of Ellinor Creagh, her husband Dominic Power, and their son Edward, whose deaths in 1673 and 1682 remain clearly recorded although the stone itself has faded into illegibility. Dominic received permission from the Earl of Inchiquin to build the tomb, yet the pair of slabs now lies at the eastern end where an altar once stood, suggesting the church had already fallen silent when they were set. The stones do not claim divine favour or heroic blood; they preserve an ordinary family whose names survived the very building that failed to keep them visible.

The northern one of two graveslabs situated at the E end of a church (CL017-066001-). This flat graveslab is now illegible but Macnamara (1896, 230) recorded the following inscription: ‘Here leyth the body of Ellinor Creagh, weife to Dominic Power who departed this life on the 15th of December 1673. His son Edward Power who departed April 22 1682.’ Macnamara (1901, 360) considered this to be one of the few 17th-century graves in County Clare for which there is documentary evidence, and quoted (1901, 360) a surviving document showing that Dominic Power received permission to build this tomb from the Earl of Inchiquin. There is a second 17th-century graveslab (CL017-066005-) immediately to the S. The location of these two graveslabs on the site of the altar suggests that the church was no longer in regular use by the middle of the 17th century. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy and Conn Herriott Date of upload: 14-10-2025

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