Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveslab
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, -6.91144
- SMR number
- KD022-029051-
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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-).
KD022-029051-: In the S wall of the S transept. According to Bradley et al. (1986 vol. 3, 238), a rectangular limestone tablet (L 1.14m; H 0.51m; T 0.23m) within a moulded frame set on two consoles has an incised inscription in Roman lettering: ‘HERE VNDERNEATH LYETH THE BODY OF IOHN HE/ WESTON ESQ HE WAS BORNE ATT SETTRINGTON IN / YORKSHIRE AND DYED THE 2 DAY OD FEBRU 1658/ AGED 45 YEARES THIS MONUMENT WAS ERECTED AS A MEMORIAL OF HIM BY CHRISTIAN HIS WIF BY WHOM HE/ HAD ISSUE ONE SONNO AND tWO DAUGHTERS THE YO/UNGER DYED THE YERE OF HER AGE AND IS INTER/ED BY HER FatheR’. (Kittson 1888-91, 90)
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 7 February 2012
Nearby in the register
- Wall monumentunder 1 mi
- Armorial plaqueunder 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.