GA-STNL-0053

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

HERE • LYETH • THE BO[DY OF] HVGH TVRNOR WHO [DY] ED YE 28 - OF - [TV]RNOR [POST]ER[ITY]

Grave location
County: 
Galway
Latitude: 
53.272741388889
Longitude: 
-9.0532113888889
Additional details
References: 
FitzGerald (1910-12), 82 gives more or less the same reading as Fleetwood Berry but gives the date as "YE 28 OF MARCH 171(?) and the wife’s name as "CHRISTIAN”. Fleetwood Berry (1912 A), 5. He gives a fuller reading of this inscription than it is possible to give now. Though he mistakes "lye” for "lyeth" in the first line the rest of his reading is very useful. It is as follows "Here lye the body of Hugh Tumor who died the 28 of March 1758 also his wife Christina and their Posterity".
People commemorated: 
Surname: 
TURNOR
Notes: 

A Rect. R.S. with a very worn Ins. cut in low false relief. The Ins. is in block capitals, some of them conjoined.