Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Tomb - effigial
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
- 53.15695, -6.91044
- SMR number
- KD022-029070-
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
The present location of a 13th century limestone slab (dims. L 2.14m; Wth 0.36m; T 0.12m) with an incised figure of a woman, an inscription (now incomplete), which was added in the 16th century and an eight-armed cross with Fleur-de-lis terminals in relief (on the underside), dated to the second half of the 13th century, which is now in Kildare Market House. (JKAS 1972, 136-40; Hunt 1974, 154).
Its original location is recorded as being at a church (KD014-016----) and graveyard (KD014-016001-) in Castledillon Upper townland - see KD014-016002-. (Bradley et al. 1986 vol. 3, 254)
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 9 February 2012
Nearby in the register
- Architectural featureunder 1 mi
- Armorial plaqueunder 1 mi
- Historic townunder 1 mi
- Town defencesunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.