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Memorial stone (present location)

Gardens (kilkenny City By., St. Canice Par.), County Kilkenny, Ireland

The record

Townland
Gardens (kilkenny City By., St. Canice Par.)
County
Kilkenny
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.65613, -7.25633
SMR number
KK019-026186-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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

Incorporated in a relatively recently constructed low wall along the E side of Velvet Lane. In the late 19th century, Robertson (1893, 214) describes how the slab had been, ‘recently taken out of a wall in the stable-yard connected with the house at the foot of the steps leading to the Cathedral of St. Canice, which the tenant has had built into the wall of an out-office recently enlarged’. The Latin inscription in Roman Capitals in false relief reads: R.D. JACOBUS SHEE VICARIORUM COMMUNIS AULAE PROVISOR ANNO DNI 1647. The inscription refers to the ‘Common Hall’, a building which had been part of the cathedral complex (ibid.).

See attached photographs:
KK019-026186-_01 Front view of plaque
KK019-026186-_02 Location of plaque on Velvet Lane
KK019-026186-_03 Side view of plaque

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 20 December 2019

References

Robertson, J. G. 1893 Miscellanea. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, Series 5, vol. 3, 214-16.

Lanigan, K.M. and Tyler, G. 1987 Kilkenny: its architecture & History. Kilkenny.

Nearby in the register

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

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