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
- 53.15782, -6.91115
- SMR number
- KD022-029053-
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-).
KD022-029053-: Outside the E gable wall of the chancel. According to Bradley et al. (1986 vol. 3, 239), a small rectangular limestone piece (H 0.39m; Wth 0.48m; T 0.10m), in two fragments, has an inscription in Roman lettering: ‘HERE LYETY ye BODY OF HEN/RY LYNDALL deCEASED ye 21 OF APRIL 1688’. (Fitzgerald 1904-6b)
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 7 February 2012
Nearby in the register
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Tomb - effigialunder 1 mi
- Inscribed slabunder 1 mi
- Buildingunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.