Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveslab
Threecastles, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Threecastles
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.71254, -7.32338
- SMR number
- KK014-025012-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
In the graveyard at Threecastles (KK014-025007-). Describing the graveslabs, Buggy (1969, 15) noted, 'a "Cadaver" - a small oblong stone 2' 1" x 1" [c. 0.63m x 0.02m - the latter measurement is probably a typographical error as it is more likely to be 1' or 0.3m] with a perfectly inscribed outline of a skeleton on its face'. This may be from a graveslab or could be from a side or front panel of an altar tomb.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 21 May 2020
References
Buggy, M. 1969 A note on Three Castles cemetery. Old Kilkenny Review 21, 1-16.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.