What is recorded here

Graveslab in Athenry marks the infant deaths of Bridged and Mary Bermingham in 1676 and 1677. The stone lies beside Lady Matilda’s tomb, carrying the young baron’s wife and children into one chamber. Its ligatured letters still press against the dark, refusing to let infancy fade into forgetfulness.

This rectangular graveslab (L 1.22m; Wth 0.62m; T 0.1m) is in the chancel of the Dominican church (GA084-001014-), close to the S end of the W side of Lady Matilda Bermingham’s late 18th-century tomb. When recorded by Macalister (1913, Pl. 1) it was located on the S side of the tomb, close to its W end. An inscription, which is in relief and with many of the letters ligatured, reads: ‘HERE: LYES : BRIDGED | AND : MARY : BERMING |HAM: DAVGHTERS : TO | EDWARD : LORD : BARON| OF ATHENRY: AND | THE : LADY : MARY : BVKE | HIS : WIFE. THEY : DYED | IN : THEIR : INFANCY : IN | 1676 : AND : 1677’ (ibid., 212, IX). (Bradley and Dunne 1992, 36-7) The following images have been uploaded: GA084-001050-_01.jpg GA084-001050-_02.jpg Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 12 November 2018

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