GA-STNL-0390

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

- - - [ON MORA]FORD SHVMAKER AND [H]IS WIF IVA INLA GHLINGE WH[0] [DIED 1577]

Grave location
County: 
Galway
Latitude: 
53.27272663
Longitude: 
-9.0537133799738
Additional details
References: 
FitzGerald (1895-97), 465 gives ” RFORD• SHVMAKER-AND / HIS WIF IVA NLAGHLINGE* WH". Fleetwood Berry (1912 A), records this inscription three times (pp. 12, opp. p. 12 and on the inside cover). Fleetwood Berry (1912 B), 66 gives the inscription as follows "Here lyeth the body of On Morford Shumaker and his wif Juaninla Ghlimge who ...". Fleetwood Berry, (Ed. Higgins) (1989), 66-7. Here a new reading of the inscription including segments of Hardiman's and Fleetwood Berry's readings which are no longer extant was proposed. This version has been modified (above) in the light of new evidence from rubbings and plastercasts. (Ulus, back cover op. cit.l Hardiman (1820), 252. He gives the inscription as follows "Here lieth the Body of On Morford, Shumaker, and his wife, Juaninia Ghlinge - who - 1577". KUlanin and Duignan (1962), 285 (illus.). It seems likely that Fleetwood Berry took parts of the Hardiman reading of the inscription into account in his own as the former's illustration, (opposite p. 35 of Fleetwood Berry 1912 B) shows that the stone was already in an incomplete state when he wrote. It does, however, seem curious that in his manuscript, (1912 A) he would appear to have been taking down direct from an inscription which he records thrice. A reconstruction of the inscription may be suggested ” ON MORAFORD SHVMAKER AND HIS WIF IVA IN (for NI) LAGHLINGE WHO DIED 1577". S
People commemorated: 
Surname: 
MORAFORD and LAGHLINGE
Notes: 

The slab (roughly trapezoidal in shape) is broken and now set into the West wall of the Lynch Aisle. It was originally recumbent. The Ins. around the border is in low false relief and incomplete. There are lozenge-shaped stops at various intervals around the Ins. The slab is decorated with a Celtic-style ringed cross, consisting of double-interlaced bands. On either side of the broad shaft of the cross there is a square panel of floral decoration set diagonally to each other. The segments outside these floral panels are plain. The pattern was probably continued further down the length of the stone.