Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveslab
Timolin, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Timolin
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.98431, -6.80837
- SMR number
- KD036-025004-
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Shown on 5 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
Fine carboniferous limestone effigy (L 2m), in bas-relief, showing a knight covered by a large shield, of late twelfth or early thirteenth century date, thought to represent Robert FitzRichard who founded a convent (KD036-025002-) for Arroasian nuns in Timolin c. 1200. Was in the graveyard (KD036-025007-), but was moved into the Protestant church in 1907 (JKAS 1891-5, 149; ibid 1908, 368-9; Killanin and Duignan 1967, 89)
Date of upload: 5 September 2016
Nearby in the register
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.