What is recorded here

Graveslab in Athenry lies second from the north wall monument inside the Dominican church, its broken corner and faint ringed cross marking a life that no longer has a name. The coulter and plough sock carved beside the cross suggest the dead person may have worked soil rather than held office, giving the stone a quiet domestic pride. It is not a grand tomb, but a record of use: someone lived, worked, died and was remembered enough to cut stone.

In the nave of the Dominican church (GA084-001014-), this graveslab (L 1.9m; Wth across the top 0.8m; Wth 0.77 across base; T 0.12m) is the 2nd slab to the N of the wall monument (GA084-001071-). The bottom-right corner is broken off. Traces of an incised ringed cross, with ‘arms ending in rude floriations’ (Macalister 1913, 212, V, Pl. VII No. 1)’, are visible as well as a coulter on the sinister side and plough sock on the dexter side. There is no inscription. Macalister (ibid.) suggested a date of c. 1650. (Bradley and Dunne 1992, 40-41) The following image has been uploaded: GA084-001062-_01.jpg Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 12 November 2018

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