GA-STNL-0234

Record Date: 
23 December 2024
Exact wording of epitaph: 

SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF EDWARD EYRE MAUNSELL ESQR J.P. OF FORT EYRE. GALWAY WHO DIED FEBRY 26™ 1876. ERECTED BY HIS BELOVED WIFE. ALSO HIS BELOVED WIFE ALICIA MAUNSELL WHO DIED 10™ JULY 1894 DAUGHTER OF THE LATE GEORGE MINCHIN ESQR OF BUSHERTOWN KINGS Co FATHER. I WILL THAT THEY ALSO WHOM THOU HAST GIVEN ME. BE WITH ME WHERE I AM. THAT THEY MAY BEHOLD MY GLORY. JOHN XVII24. WHERE I AM. THERE SHALL ALSO MY SERVANT BE. JOHN XII 26.

Grave location
County: 
Latitude: 
53.27295
Longitude: 
-9.0535880555556
Additional details
References: 
Bur. Reed. Vol. 2 (1876), "Edward Eyre Maunsell, abode Fort Eyre, Galway, buried March 1st 1876, aged 52 years". Bur. Reed. Vol. 2 (1894), "Alicia Maunsell, abode Fort Eyre, Galway, buried 13th July 1894". See also Bur. Reed, for Anne Maunsell; Rev. Edward Eyre Maunsell, Rector of Ballinacourty; Richard Hedges Maunsell and Thomas Herbert Maunsell all of whom lived at Fort Eyre. For Marriage of Edward Eyre Maunsell see The Galwav Express. January 17th. (1867). An extensive account of the ceremony which took place in St. Brendan's Cathedral, Clonfert is given. For his death see The Galwav Express. February 26th. (1876). (Obituary for E.E. Maunsell Esq. J.P "... He was one of the oldest magistrates of this town and a Harbour Comm, for many years..."). Vestry Minute Books (Vol. II), March 27th. (1876), 57. "Mrs. Maunsell was anxious to erect a monument to the late E.E. Maunsell. She be informed that on submitting a design for the same the sanction of the the vestry will be given”. For Rev. Edward Eyre Maunsell, who was related and who according to his obituary was "... interred in the Eyre Maunsell vault in the Collegiate Church of St. Nicholas" see The Galway Vindicator. April 27th. (1864) and The Galwav Express. April 30th. (1864). The vault mentioned could be beneath No. 234 (in the graveyard) or in the church somewhere. No. 335 in the Blessed Sacrament Chapel has been moved and is a small recumbent slab. No. 347 is a wall plaque in the church. It is likely therefore that the vault was beneath No. 234 unless there was another earlier burial place which continued to be used. The Eyre slab (which is recumbent beneath the organ in the French Transept) (No. 363) may be the location. There is another plaque in the wall above it. (Two other wall plaques to the Eyres, Nos. 406 and 407, commemorate Eyre family members who were probably buried beneath No. 363 however).
People commemorated: 
Surname: 
EYRE-MAUNSELL and MINCHIN
Notes: 

A small H.S. with a bow-shaped top and an Inc'd. Ins.. The grave plot is surrounded by a simple limestone kerb.