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Graveslab

Ballyconra, County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Graveslab, Ballyconra, 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
Ballyconra
County
Kilkenny
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.79097, -7.36357
SMR number
KK009-013007-

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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 NW corner of the chancel of Ballyconra church (KK009-013001-) in an area used as a mortuary chapel. A graveslab (L 1.77m; Wth 0.9m) with an inscription in English in Roman capitals commemorating Alexius Fitzgerald (d. 1694) and his wife Dorothy. The slab is dated 1694 and bears a coat of arms beneath the inscription (Cockerham 2009, 362). The arms are described by Carrigan (1905, vol. 2, 313) as, 'ermine, five annulets on a cross saltire; crest, a helmet; underneath is the insciption: HERE LAYETH THE BODY OF MR. ALEXIVS FITZGERALD WHO DYED THE 16TH OF MAY, 1694. REQVIESCAT IN PACE. AMEN. MRS. DOROTHEY FITZGERALD NEE LODGE'.

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of revised upload: 9 May 2018

References

Carrigan, Rev. W. 1905 (Reprint 1981) The history and antiquities of the diocese of Ossory, 4 vols. Kilkenny. Roberts Books and Wellbrook Press.

Cockerham, P. 2009 My body to be buried in my owne monument: the social and religious context of Co. Kilkenny funeral monuments, 1600-1700. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 109C, 239-365.

Nearby in the register

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

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