GA-SRMY-0022

Record Date: 
13 October 2025
Graveyard: 
An Sean Reilig, Moycullen
Exact wording of epitaph: 

PRAY FOR THE
SOUL OF JAMES
LIDDANE MARGARET
LIDDANE 1760

Memorial Type: 
Ledger Slab
Grave location
County: 
Galway
Latitude: 
53.342272777778
Longitude: 
-9.1570013888889
Additional details
Stonecutter/monumental sculptor: 
N/A
Inscription legible: 
Yes
Number of people commemorated: 
2
People commemorated: 
Name: 
James
Surname: 
Liddane (Lydon)
Date of death - year: 
1760
Name: 
Margaret
Surname: 
Liddane (Lydon)
Date of death - year: 
1760
Notes: 

A Limestone ledger graveslab shaped on one side at the top, measuring 170cm in length x 81cm in width.Incised inscription in roman style, all capitals.Decoration consists of IHS in the centre at the top end of the slab with a sword or dagger handle extending beyond the semicircular carving which surrounds the letters of IHS.This slab originally held a Brachiapod fossil pictured in Moycullen Heritage Dead Zoo Lab Project 2025. Our Irish Natural History; following our fossils Archives - Moycullen Heritage The fossil is now missing but the socket in which it rested can still be seen.