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Graveslab

Coolcashin, County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Graveslab, Coolcashin, 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
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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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

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

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

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