Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveslab
Grangefertagh, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Grangefertagh
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.77853, -7.54429
- SMR number
- KK008-047013-
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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 N chapel of the medieval church at Grangefertagh (KK008-047001-). According to Carrigan (1905, vol. 2, 292-3), this chapel was built by the MacGillapatrick/Kilpatrick family in the 15th or early 16th century. This sandstone graveslab is lying 1m from the S wall and 1.65m from the W wall of the N chapel. It is a tapering slab (Wth at top 0.37m; Wth at base 0.29m; L 0..87m; T 0.12m), though the slab is horizontally broken across the slab beneath the cross head. It is decorated in raised relief with a four-armed trefoil-headed cross, with a trefoil terminal at the base of the cross shaft. The top edge of the slab has a raised moulding (0.025m) and the side has a chamfer, splaying outwards (Wth 0.07-0.09m). Stylistically the graveslab dates to the 13th/14th century.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 27 February 2017
Nearby in the register
- Tomb - effigialunder 1 mi
- Religious house - Augustinian canonsunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Fontunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.