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Graveslab

Freshford Lots, County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Graveslab, Freshford Lots, 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
Freshford Lots
County
Kilkenny
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.73261, -7.39799
SMR number
KK013-023012-

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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

Inserted in the inner face of the wall on the W side of the C of I graveyard (KK013-023005-), 0.6m N of the entrance to the graveyard.
The upper portion of a rectangular limestone graveslab (Wth 1.1m; H 0.83m). There are three lines of an inscription which run along the full width of the top of the slab, with a date of 1693 or 1695 at the start of the lowest third line. The inscription in English in roman capitals is very worn and begins, ‘HERE LIES CORNELIUS (?) GEALE OF ….1693/5’. The remaining two thirds of the slab is empty or is completely worn.

See attached:
KK013-023012-_01 Overview of graveslab
KK013-023012-_02 Detail of inscription showing the date

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 22 August 2022

Nearby in the register

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

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