GA-STNL-0278

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

IN MEMORY OF MICHL MC DONAGH AND OF MARY HIS WIFE WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE THE FORMER ON THE 21 DECEMBER 1830 AGED 65 YEARS AND THE LATTER ON THE 26 DECR 1870 AGED 80 ALSO IN MEMORY OF ANNE WILSON THEIR DAUGHTER WHO DIED ON THE 19 JULY 1871 AND ALL OF THEM IN THE SURE AND CERTAIN HOPE OF A JOYFUL RESURRECTION THIS TOMB IS ERECTED BY THE SON OF THE FORMER MAGOR STEPHEN Mc DONOUGH LATE 61 REG

Grave location
County: 
Galway
Latitude: 
53.272978055556
Longitude: 
-9.0538463888889
Additional details
References: 
Bur. Reed. Vol. 2 (1870), "Mary Mc Donough, abode Shantalla, buried December the 29th 1870, aged 80 years". Bur. Reed. Vol. 2 (1871), "Mrs. Anne Wilson, abode Shantalla, buried July 23rd 1871, aged 32 years". See also No. 97 for Maria Bright, sister of Major Mc Donagh. 63^3
People commemorated: 
Surname: 
MC DONAGH and WILSON
Notes: 

A table-tomb with six, crude, cylindrical supports two of which have sunk and one has been heightened with pieces of stone.