GA-SMDO-0042

Record Date: 
17 June 2015
Graveyard: 
St Mary's Dominican
Exact wording of epitaph: 

Pray for the soul of Morier

taugh Fitz Patrick who

dyed August the 23rd 1723

and his wife Ellen Browne

and their posterity

Memorial Type: 
Ledger Slab
Grave location
County: 
Galway
Latitude: 
53.2683175
Longitude: 
-9.0568
Number of people commemorated: 
2
People commemorated: 
Name: 
Moriertaugh
Surname: 
FitzPatrick
Date of death - day: 
23
Date of death - month: 
August
Date of death - year: 
1723
Name: 
Ellen
Surname: 
Browne
Relationship with first person: 
Wife
Notes: 

This very fine example of a heraldic slab shows the conjoined coats of arms of Mutragh Fitzpatrick and Browne with the crest of Fitzpatrick showing a lion and a dragon in combat above the escutcheon. A scroll for a motto occurs below the oval escutcheon. The inscription bears the date 1720 by which time heraldic sculpture had become rare in Galway and was not revived until the 19th century.