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Graveslab

Gardens (Kilkenny City By., St. Mary’s Par.), County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Graveslab, Gardens (Kilkenny City By., St. Mary’s 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. Mary’s Par.)
County
Kilkenny
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.65592, -7.25375
SMR number
KK019-026190-

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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

In St Francis' Abbey (KK019-026101-), Kilkenny. Reused as the northernmost lintel in the N ground floor passage of the crossing-tower, only the upper surface and dexter side are visible. The upper end of a tapering slab with raised edges. It is decorated with a cross in false relief, consisting of a large four-lobed cross-head and cross-arms, on either side of a raised cross-shaft, with trefoil terminals. The upper side of the exposed graveslab is chamfered, splaying inwardly. Stylistically this graveslab dates to the 13th/14th century.

See attached photographs by Chris Corlett.

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 11 March 2020

Nearby in the register

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

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