GA-STNL-0080

Record Date: 
30 September 2024
Graveyard: 
St Nicholas' Collegiate Church and Graveyard
Exact wording of epitaph: 

Here Lies the Bodey of William Lewis, who Departed this Life 1729 and /arah Lewis Otherwise Gough his Wife who Departed] this Life Ian [?3] 1776 Aged 80 years

Grave location
County: 
Galway
Latitude: 
53.27268
Longitude: 
-9.0533747222222
Additional details
References: 
Fleetwood Berry (1912 A), 2. He gives this inscription with some minor discrepancies.
People commemorated: 
Surname: 
LEWIS and GOUGH
Notes: 

A plain Rect. R.S., roughly trapezoidal in shape, which was reused as paving in the graveyard. Inc'd. Ins.. Possibly a reused medieval slab. The "/" the Sarah stands for an "S". See also No. 87 for other Lewis. See also No. 84 for a further Gough.