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Graveslab

Ballycallan, County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Graveslab, Ballycallan, 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
Ballycallan
County
Kilkenny
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.62186, -7.36544
SMR number
KK018-072006-

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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)
  • 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (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

Associated with the medieval church (KK018-072001-) of Ballycallan and situated at the NE end of the graveyard (KK018-072002-), E of a modern Celtic cross dedicated to Patrick Phelan. The lower portion (L 0.7m; Wth 0.27m tapering to 0.25m at the base; T 0.07m) of the slab protrudes above the ground. It is decorated with an incised cross-shaft with incised fleur-de-lis terminal. It is one of four taping graveslabs (KK018-072004-; KK018-072005-; KK018-072006-; KK018-072007-) in the graveyard noted by Carrigan (1905, vol. 3, 442) which appear to date from the 13th/14th century.

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 3 February 2021

References

Carrigan, Rev. W. 1905 (Reprint 1981) The history and antiquities of the diocese of Ossory, 4 vols. Kilkenny. Roberts Books and Wellbrook Press.

Nearby in the register

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

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