GA-STNL-0363

Record Date: 
3 January 2025
Graveyard: 
St Nicholas' Collegiate Church and Graveyard
Exact wording of epitaph: 

[H]ERE • L[Y]ETH • INTERED • THE • BO[DY] F • EDWARD • EYRE • ESQR SON [0]F • GILLES • EYRE • ESQR OF BRICKWORTH • WILLS[HI]RE NEARE • SALSBVRY • WITH • FIVE OF • HIS • CHILLDREN • 3 SONS AND • 2 DAVGHTERS • HE DECEA CED • THE • 14 OF APRILL 1683

Grave location
County: 
Galway
Latitude: 
53.27272663
Longitude: 
-9.0537133799738
Additional details
References: 
Fleetwood Berry (1912 B), 70. (He gives the spelling of GILLES as GILES). Hardiman (1820), 253 footnote. Blake (Ed.) (1907-8) (Corporation Book B). 86-7. Edward Eyre is mentioned as an alderman in 1679 (ibid. 90) and recorder in 1679 (ibid. 93). He was also recorder in 1660 and 1661 and mayor of Galway in 1663-4. On the 14th August 1677 Edward Eyre and John Eyre were made Free Burgesses of Galway for life. Edward and his brother Col. John Eyre were both officers in the Cromwellian army which captured Galway in April 1652. Alderman Edward Eyre was ancestor of the Hedges-Eyre family of Macroom Castle, Co. Cork. Col. John Eyre was ancestor to Eyrecourt and Eyreville families of County Galway (ibid) (1907-8) [Notes on the text of Book B], p 142, footnote [d]. 1689
People commemorated: 
Surname: 
EYRE
Notes: 

The Ins. is carved in low false relief. Above the Ins. is a shield with two impaled coats of arms. The left hand side bears a chevron charged with three quatrefoils (the arms of Eyre). The right hand side bears another arms which is, as yet unidentified. See also Nos. 364, 406 and 407 for other Eyre monuments.