GA-STNL-0417

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

HERE LIS • Y BODY OF • DANIEL MOVRPHY SON TO BERTHMIE MOVRPHY & MARGRET MOVRPHY WHO DIED THE YERE 1731

Grave location
County: 
Galway
Latitude: 
53.27272663
Longitude: 
-9.0537133799738
Additional details
References: 
Fleetwood Berry (1912 A), records the Ins. and includes a sketch of the vocational marks (a shoe sole and either a slipper, a cobbler's knife or some type of last) which occur below the Ins..
People commemorated: 
Surname: 
MOURPHY
Notes: 

A H.S. with a bow-shaped top and an Inc'd. Ins. A pair of opposed S-shaped spirals and a small heart occur above the Ins.. The letters are all upper case and the words are divided from each other by small dots. Below is the Inc'd. outline of the sole of a shoe and another object which could be interpreted as a cobbler's leather-cutting knife with a slight hook at the end of the blade and a handle at the other end. Another interpretation suggests that the object may represent a low, shallow slipper. The vocational marks are obviously those of a leather worker or cobbler. The bottom of the stone is missing. The stone is now preserved on top of the Lynch tomb in the South Transept. It came from the vicinity of the oil tank in the graveyard, outside this transept. See also Nos. 163, 164 and 165 for Muiphy monuments.