Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Headstone
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
- KK008-010005-
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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 graveyard (KK008-010002-) of Erke medieval church (KK008-010001-), a late 17th-century headstone is described by Carrigan (1905, vol. 2, 277) as, 'A small headstone has:- "I.H.S. Here lyeth the body of Peerce Castholovgh and his family. He died Jvne ye 26th 1699.". The precise location of this headstone within the graveyard is unknown.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 27 September 2017
References
Carrigan, Rev. W. 1905 (Reprint 1981) The history and antiquities of the diocese of Ossory, 4 vols. Kilkenny. Roberts Books and Wellbrook Press.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.