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Inscribed slab

Freneystown, County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Inscribed slab, Freneystown, 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
Freneystown
County
Kilkenny
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.68232, -7.11663
SMR number
KK015-030008-

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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)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 14, 1904 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

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The National Monuments Service's description

In an upland river valley at the E end of a low ridge overlooking a steep river valley immediately to E and N. There is a holy well, known as St. Scoheen's Well (KK015-030006-), approx. 60m W of an early medieval church (KK015-030001-) and graveyard (KK015-030002-). The church is marked as 'Tiscoffin Church (Site of)' on the 1900 ed. OS 6" map which is derived from the Irish Tigh Scoithin. St. Scoithin was a 6th-century monk who established a hermitage here during this period. There is no visible trace of the early medieval church which is located in the SW quadrant of a small square-shaped graveyard. The OS letters records that 'the original grave yard of this original church is no longer used; in it are shewn seven flags (now partly covered with grass and earth) under which seven Bishops - the seven sons of Scoithin are said to be interred' (O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 1, 73-4). A cross-inscribed slab, now in the National Museum of Ireland (NMI File), was discovered in 1950 lying along the earthen bank which covers the low stone wall that encloses the early medieval church.

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 7 March 2016

References

O'Flanagan, Rev. M. (Compiler) 1930 Letters containing information relative to the antiquities of the county of Kilkenny collected during the progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1839. Bray.

Nearby in the register

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

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