Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveslab
Unknown, County Carlow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Unknown
- County
- Carlow
- Country
- Ireland
- SMR number
- CW008-072----
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The National Monuments Service's description
This record refers to the original location of the graveslab which is now located on Castlemore motte (CW008-033001-). The exact original location is unknown. According to Orpen (1906, 379) this was moved from a nearby graveyard (CW008-033003-) in the 18th century. Corlett (2003, 94) describes it as a slab (L 1.95m; T 0.3m; Wth 0.58m tapering to 0.35m) in recumbent position decorated with a cross (Wth 0.43m), shaft (Wth 0.1m) and terminating in a cross (Wth 0.32m), all in low relief. There is also a transom (Wth 0.43m) transecting midway along the shaft. It has been ascribed a 13th/early 14th-century date. (See CW008-033007- for present location record)
Reference:
Corlett, C. 2003 The Hollywood Slabs - some late medieval graveslabs from west Wicklow and neighbouring Counties. In JRSAI 133, 94-5.
Orpen, G.H. 1906 The castle of Raymond le Gros at Fodredunolan. In JRSAI 36, 368-82.
Compiled by: Claire Breen
Date of upload: 11 January 2012