GA-STNL-0179

Record Date: 
3 June 2024
Graveyard: 
St Nicholas' Collegiate Church and Graveyard
Exact wording of epitaph: 

HERE LIES THE-BOD YS OF-STEPH EN-&MARY ARD • & • THE IRE • FAMELY WHO-DIED 1688-HIS-WI FE 1714

Grave location
County: 
Galway
Latitude: 
53.272888055556
Longitude: 
-9.0533113888889
Additional details
References: 
Fleetwood Berry (1912 A), 6. He gives an accurate reading, but without the punctuation stops.
People commemorated: 
Surname: 
ARD
Notes: 

This slab and the frame, in which it is set, was moved to its present position in 1984. It had been set in the wall of the graveyard further towards the North but when the majority of that wall was demolished, it was repositioned in the blocked arch. The monument is a Rect. slab Inc'd. in low false relief. It is enclosed in a stone frame. The top of this frame is a reused moulded window sill with a bar hole. The sides are of plain (18th century?) ashlar. The window sill fragment is probably of late medieval date.