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Graveslab in Athenry

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Under the crossing tower of the Dominican church (GA084-001014-), close to its SW pier. This broken rectangular graveslab (surviving L 1.39m; Wth 0.89m; T 0.12m) bears ‘a cross pattée, with long stem, and a number of smith’s tools’ (Macalister 1913, 214, XIII, 219, Pl. IX, No. 13). Two bellows are visible on the dexter side, and on the sinister side there is an augur, pincers, anvil, horseshoe, and a hook-shaped object’. It is dated 1682 and an inscription at the top of the slab and sinister edge reads: ‘FOR THE VSE OF THOMAS TANIAN AND HIS (POSTERITY)’ (ibid.). (Bradley and Dunne 1992, 37) The following images have been uploaded: GA084-001051-_01.jpg GA084-001051-_02.jpg Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 12 November 2018

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