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Graveslab in Killeshin

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Unable to locate recumbent 17th century graveslab located S of Killeshin church (LA032-020002-) in S quadrant of graveyard (LA032-020004-). According to Fitzgerald (1910, 198) ‘the oldest tombstone appears to be dated 1688; it is a flat slab on the south side of the churchyard and was erected to the memory of John Dodd’s and Bryan Hogan’s families’.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record LA032-020009

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