GA-STNL-0295

Record Date: 
23 December 2024
Graveyard: 
St Nicholas' Collegiate Church and Graveyard
Exact wording of epitaph: 

IACET MARIA WILLIAMSON VID[?R]I ICTA NINIANI WILLIAMSON DER? AMI OLIM MEPEJ OPI QII ESCOTICA E?EAE OP[?B] OFO QVM VIXIT VRPTUTE CL_A_? PERQUAM LAVDABILIET AB ? IDUS QUI NOUERINT MULTUM CEPATA OBIIT XI0 SEPTEMBERIS 1675 56 AETATIS ANNO ?ET(or DNI?) MIT SUB SPE RESURRECTONIS

Grave location
County: 
Galway
Latitude: 
53.273056388889
Longitude: 
-9.0536163888889
Additional details
References: 
FitzGerald (1895-97), 462 gives the inscription as we, too have recorded it, except that he could also make out an "R" after the 6th word. Fleetwood Berry (1912 A), 70, passim mentions two hammers instead of three. Fleetwood Berry, (Ed. Higgins) (1989), 70 footnote. A new reading of the inscription is given here. Hayward (1952), 44 passim, illus. p. 45.
People commemorated: 
Surname: 
WILLIAMSON
Notes: 

This is a large complete Rect. slab with a lighdy Inc'd. Ins. in Latin. The last word on the in the fifth line may have been "RELICTA". Some of the Ins. has spalled away and is difficult to read. The letter forms are a mixture of upper and lower case ones, and all of the "Ns" have been reversed. Most of the lower third of the stone has been crudely pocked over. See also No. 340 for another Williamson. 296 ANON + HERE • LIETH • THE • BODY • OF • W — — • POSTERITY • WHOES • SOVLES — THE LORD RECEAV 1641 The top part of a large slab bearing an Ins. and three crowned hammers which are traditionally supposed to be the mark of a goldsmith. The fragment is well preserved and the lettering is boldly cut in false relief.