GA-STNL-0091

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

HERE • L[YETH] THE BODY OF HAMNETT WARD SEP TEMBER 17™

Grave location
County: 
Galway
Latitude: 
53.272588055556
Longitude: 
-9.0530080555556
Additional details
References: 
FitzGerald (1910-12), 83. He supplies the small "TH" in the date.
People commemorated: 
Surname: 
WARD
Notes: 

A spandrel from a fireplace which has been reused, firstly as a gravestone, and later as a piece of paving. It probably comes from a 16th/17th century fireplace, was reused as a gravestone in the 18th and as a piece of paving in the 19th century. The lower edge of the stone is chamfered. The inscription is cut in low false relief with capitals being conjoined. See also No. 75 for a further reused fireplace fragment.