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Memorial stone (present location)

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

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Memorial stone (present location), Gardens (Kilkenny City By., St. Canice Par.), 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
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

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)
  • 1911 · Sheet 14, 1911 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

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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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