Set into the southern wall of the chapel known as Jenning's Chantry, a side chapel positioned to the west of the double transept off the nave of the friary church at Ross, Co. Galway, the slab records not a nobleman or a cleric but a woman who commissioned the space herself, on her own terms, and made sure posterity knew it.

The inscription reads: "Pray for Soracha Jonin who built this chappell for her self her husband Tho: Kievach: Ionin and her sonne David in the yeare 1678." A chantry chapel, in the medieval and early post-medieval tradition, was a space endowed by a patron for the saying of prayers and masses for the souls of the founder and their family, and the name Jenning's Chantry suggests the Jonin or Jennings family had a lasting association with it. What makes the inscription unusual is its voice. Soracha is named first, ahead of her husband Thomas Kievach Jonin and their son David, and the act of building is attributed directly to her. In 1678, with the Cromwellian upheavals still a living memory and Catholic religious life in Ireland operating under considerable legal pressure, the commissioning of a chantry chapel and a permanent stone memorial was no small gesture. The slab's modest dimensions, 0.77 metres wide and 0.36 metres high, give no sense of grandeur, which makes the clarity of its claim all the more notable.