Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Tomb - chest tomb
Donaghmore (fassadinin By.), County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Donaghmore (fassadinin By.)
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.77915, -7.32767
- SMR number
- KK010-005006-
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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
Within the chancel of Donaghmore church (KK010-005001-) against the S wall. A fragment of the mensa of a chest tomb (L 0.65m; Wth 0.95m; T 0.2m) decorated with a four-armed fleur-de-lys cross with an inner circle. Portion of the border survives on either side. This may be a fragment of the tomb (KK010-005003-) mentioned by Carrigan (1905, vol. 2, 83).
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 3 May 2019
Nearby in the register
- Tomb - chest tombunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Headstoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.