What is recorded here

Graveslab in Baile Chláir lies flat on the chancel floor beside the southern wall, marked for Fiaghy Burke and his posterity in 1683. The date suggests a proud family directed the tomb long after the friary fell quiet, perhaps keeping a dead relative close to the altar where prayers still echoed. Footsteps may have worn the stone smooth through generations, blending personal grief into the ordinary traffic of the house.

Located on the floor of the chancel of the friary (GA070-035001-), adjacent to the piscina and sedilla in the S wall. Described by Bradley and Dunne (1992, 59) as a slab (L 1.19m; Wth 0.97m) bearing the following inscription: PRAY FOR THE SOVL/ OF FIAGHY BVRKE/ AND ALL HIS WHOLE/ POSTERITIE WHO DI/RECTED THS TOMB/ IN THE YEARE/ 1683 The following image has been uploaded: GA070-035012-_01.jpg Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 17 July 2018

Medieval Christian tomb slab, 14th–15th century. Its location within a friary and association with ecclesiastical features indicates its significance as a marker of a religious or elite burial.

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