GA-STNL-0024

Record Date: 
10 May 2024
Graveyard: 
St Nicholas' Collegiate Church and Graveyard
Exact wording of epitaph: 

Here lieth the Body of Sir James Shee who died the 29th of January 1793 Aged 63 years

Grave location
County: 
Galway
Latitude: 
53.272974722222
Longitude: 
-9.0537813888889
Additional details
References: 
Fleetwood Berry (1912 A), 8. He gives the date as 1795 but it seems to be 1793. Hardiman (1820), 227 lists James Shee as sheriff in 1775 and as mayor in 1776.
People commemorated: 
Surname: 
SHEE
Notes: 

This R. S. has been reused as part of the pathway around the church. The Inc'd. Ins. is still fairly clear.