Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveslab
Coolcashin, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Coolcashin
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.77123, -7.46575
- SMR number
- KK009-019003-
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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
On a gentle E-facing slope, just below the crest of a hill, in rolling grassland, c. 50m NE of a stream which flows into a river c. 400m to the E. In the NW quadrant of the graveyard (KK009-013002-) associated with the medieval church of Coolcashin (KK009-013001-). One of two 13th/14th-century tapering graveslab fragments. The upper portion of a limestone graveslab (L 0.47m; top total Wth 0.4m; upper surface Wth 0.32m - tapering to Wth 0.25m; T 0.3m) with deep chamfered edges (Wth 0.08-0.1m). The slab is decorated with an incised three-armed cross with trefoil terminals (Higgins 1989, 606-7). The other graveslab (KK009-019006-) is the lower portion of a similar slab, but the dimensions indicate that they are not part of the same slab.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 31 January 2018
Nearby in the register
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.