Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveslab
Gaganstown, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gaganstown
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.12521, -6.66662
- SMR number
- KD029-013002-
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 the E sector of a graveyard (KD029-013001-), which also contains a ruined church (KD029-013----). A gently tapering, granite slab (H 0.95m; Wth 0.3-0.4m; T 0.18m) is apparently erected upside-down and leans heavily towards the E. It carry's a Latin cross carved in relief on its E face. (Corlett 2003, 98, 100)
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 04 September 2013
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Hearthunder 1 mi
- Excavation - miscellaneousunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.