Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveslab
Garrylaun, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Garrylaun
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.79150, -7.59962
- SMR number
- KK008-010004-
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
In the graveyard (KK008-001002-) of Erke medieval church (KK008-010001-). Moore (1874-9, vol. 1, 38) describes a 'monumental slab having the following insription:- "Son of Anne Ball in Logh who deceased" - "Here under Lieth the corpse of Thom. Morris". The date was broken off, or, perhaps, never engraved. The inscription is in raised Roman letters. Its date about 1660 or thereabouts'. The precise location of this graveslab within the graveyard is unknown.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 27 September 2017
References
Moore, Very Rev. Canon 1874-9 Parochial papers. Transactions of the Ossory Archaeological Society 1, 23-40, 45.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.