Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveslab
Bayswell, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bayswell
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.76435, -7.62097
- SMR number
- KK008-066004-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Associated with the medieval church (KK008-066001-) and graveyard (KK008-066002-), which, according to the OS Letters (1839) is known as 'Teampall na Ratha' or the church of the rath, probably in reference to the ringfort (KK008-142----) 30m N of the church (O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 1, 116-17 (39)). At time of inspection in 1987 the graveyard was heavily overgrown with vegetation. Within the graveyard, Carrigan (1905, vol. 2, 300-302) describes, 'a piece of a coffin-shaped, uninscribed slab, with a cross in high relief down the centre'. The descriptions suggests this graveslab may date to the 13th/14th century. The graveslab is unlocated within the graveyard.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 24 October 2017
References
O'Flanagan, Rev. M. (Compiler) 1930 Letters containing information relative to the antiquities of the county of Kilkenny collected during the progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1839. Bray.
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.