Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Tomb - effigial
Abbeyland (clane Ed), County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Abbeyland (clane Ed)
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.28934, -6.68277
- SMR number
- KD014-026014-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Lying on the ground against the N wall of the chancel of the friary church (KD014-026005-). A carved limestone fragment depicting a torso, but the upper chest and legs are missing. Traditionally identified with Gerald Fitzmaurice, Lord of Offaly, who is reputed to have founded the friary and who died in 1287. (Bradley et al. 1986, vol. 2, 148)
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
Nearby in the register
- Religious house - Franciscan friarsunder 1 mi
- Fontunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Historic townunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.