Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Tomb - chest tomb
Kildare, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kildare
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.15774, -6.91145
- SMR number
- KD022-029037-
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
A large collection of cross slabs, grave slabs, decorated stones and three effigies (See KD022-029023- and KD022-029027- to KD022-029057-), dating from the 10th to the 17th centuries have been placed in St. Brigid’s Cathedral (KD022-029005-).
KD022-029037-: In the S transept. According to Bradley et al. (1986 vol. 3, 231 Fig. 110), two rectangular side panels from a tomb (total L 2m; H 0.5m; T 0.21m) are decorated in low false relief with niches, foliage and animals including a wolf, a fox, a rabbit, a goat, a unicorn, and birds including a cock and a swan/goose. An inscription in Roman lettering runs along the top margin: ‘HAEC REQVIES MEA IN SECULA SECUL… ABITABO QUONIAM ELEGIEAM’.
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 2 February 2012
Nearby in the register
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.