Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Tomb - table 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
- KD022-029038-
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-).
KD022-029038-: Four decorated limestone fragments; three in the S transept and a fourth laid against the outer face of the chancel’s E gable wall. According to Bradley et al. (1986 vol. 3, 232-33 Fig. 109), the fragments form part of an elaborate table tomb (surviving max. Wth 2.71m; H 0.62m) decorated with Christ crucified on a Latin cross, bead and reel mouldings, pillastered niches with foliated stems, ivy, grapes and animals including a sheep, a winged animal with talons, a fox-and goose and three human heads.
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.