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Graveslab

Grangefertagh, County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Graveslab, Grangefertagh, County Kilkenny, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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 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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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