GA-STNL-0315

Record Date: 
18 November 2024
Graveyard: 
St Nicholas' Collegiate Church and Graveyard
Exact wording of epitaph: 

Here lies the Remains of James Reed who Departed this life the 28th Day ofFeby 1775 Aged 52 years

Grave location
County: 
Galway
Latitude: 
53.272644722222
Longitude: 
-9.0539530555556
Additional details
References: 
Fleetwood Berry (1912 A), 4. He gives the age as 32 years. From his list it would appear that the stone was in the graveyard up to the time at which he wrote.
People commemorated: 
Surname: 
REED
Notes: 

This is a relatively small R.S. which was reused as paving in the Blessed Sacrament Chapel. The lower part of the Ins. is quite faded. This end of the slab also bears some later tooling above where the lower end has been cut away when the stone was reused. This tooling may have been done after the paving was laid down, to keep the slab flush with the rest of the surface. Inc'd. Ins..