GA-STNL-0336

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

ERE LYETH THE BODY OF ELIZA BETH • KINGCORNE • WHO DIED • THE • 10 • OF NOVBER 1684 THE • SHORTEST • LIFE THE LONGEST-REST GOD TAKS THEM • SOVNEST WHOM • HE • LOVETH • BEST

Grave location
County: 
Galway
Latitude: 
53.272918055556
Longitude: 
-9.0538563888889
Additional details
References: 
FitzGerald (1910-12), 84. Fleetwood Berry (1912 A), 3. From his list it seems its original position was in the graveyard. Fleetwood Berry (1912 B), 68. Here Fleetwood Berry clarifies the above when he states that the stone was "Just outside the wall of this transept...".
People commemorated: 
Surname: 
KINGCORNE H
Notes: 

This slab is not in its original position. It is now set in the South wall of the Blessed Sacrament Chapel. It may have been a H.S. originally. It is set in a round-headed gap in the modem plaster but it is difficult to know whether the stone itself has a rounded top. The lettering is small but well cut in low false relief. It is very similar in workmanship to the slab opposite it (No. 333). There may be a small "TH" above the " 10" on line 4 as FitzGerald indicates.