GA-STNL-0087

Record Date: 
8 December 2024
Graveyard: 
St Nicholas' Collegiate Church and Graveyard
Exact wording of epitaph: 

Here Lies the Remai ns of Allice Lewis wife of George Lewis Burges who Died April 19th 1789 Aged 67 Years Also George Lewis her Husband who Departed this Life July 2d 1790 Aged 61 years

Grave location
County: 
Galway
Latitude: 
53.272678055556
Longitude: 
-9.0528730555556
Additional details
References: 
Hardiman (1820), 226 lists George Lewis as sheriff in 1766.
People commemorated: 
Surname: 
LEWIS
Notes: 

A very large Rect. slab with bevelled upper comers and a deeply Inc’d. Ins.. Originally recumbent, it is now set on its side to form a kerb to the higher part of the cemetery. See also No. 80 for another Lewis.