GA-STNL-0338

Record Date: 
25 August 2024
Graveyard: 
St Nicholas' Collegiate Church and Graveyard
Exact wording of epitaph: 

- - - MOYNES • WHO DIE[D] THE • 2D • DAY • OF MA[Y] 16[7-] or 1685 Probably as follows originally HERE LYETH THE BODY OF WILLIAM MOYNES WHO DIED THE 2D DAY OF MAY 1685

Grave location
County: 
Galway
Latitude: 
53.272875
Longitude: 
-9.0538497222222
Additional details
References: 
FitzGerald (1910-12), 82 records the stone which was still in the churchyard at this stage. He gives the above inscription. Our reading shows all that is now visible on the stone. Cat. No. 338. This gravestone with an elaborately moulded edge was cut up and reused as the basin stone in the piscina in the Blessed Sacrament Chapel. Drawing by Maria Gillen.
People commemorated: 
Surname: 
MOYNES
Notes: 

This part of a reused gravestone has been cut into a square and fitted into the East wall of the Blessed Sacrament Chapel near the altar, where it now acts as the basin stone of a piscina. Only part of the Ins. (cut in low false relief), survives. The centre of the stone has been worked to form a circular disc-like depression [19 cm in diam.] at the centre of which there is a perforation [3 cm in diam.]. On either side of the depression a shallow rectangular recess has been cut which measures 5 cms by 16 cms. Some decoration seems to have occurred but this cannot now be clearly interpreted.The side of the stone carries a moulding (an original feature) while the upper and lower edges have been cut with an angle grinder. The lower rim of the moulding along with part of the underside have been lightly retooled. The basin itself is modem, is lightly tooled and has a modem drilled perforation. The shallow rectangular recesses are probably original features of the design.