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Graveslab

Kildare, County Kildare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Graveslab, Kildare, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. C. Kon: Ireland. a. Prov: Leinster. Counties: 1-12 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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