Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveslab
Ballymore Eustace East (ballymore Eustace Ed), County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballymore Eustace East (ballymore Eustace Ed)
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.13154, -6.60611
- SMR number
- KD029-011017-
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
In a graveyard (KD029-011004-), N of a medieval church ruins (KD029-011002-). A low, erect, earthfast granite slab (dims. H 0.44m; Wth 0.46m; T 0.16m) carries an incised Latin cross on its E face, below the arms of which are two, small, incised circles. (Corlett 2003, 87, 88-9, 106 Slab 5)
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 30 August 2013
References
Corlett, C. 2003, The Hollywood Slabs – some late medieval grave slabs from west Wicklow and neighbouring Counties, Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, 133, 86-110.
Nearby in the register
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Tomb - effigial (present location)under 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.