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Graveslab

Gardens (Kilkenny City By., St. John's Par.), County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Graveslab, Gardens (Kilkenny City By., St. John'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. John's Par.)
County
Kilkenny
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.65395, -7.24948
SMR number
KK019-026267-

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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

Reused as a building stone during the construction of the Evans’ asylum, also known as Evan’s Home, in 1818 (https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/12000216/evans-asylum-barrack-lane-gardens-st-johns-par-kilkenny-co-kilkenny). Located on the grounds of the former St John’s Priory (KK019-026068-), a house of the Augustinian canons. The Evan’s Home has been refurbished and opened in 2020 as the Butler Gallery.
Built on a H-shaped plan (aligned NW-SE but described as N-S for convenience), the graveslab is incorporated in masonry on the W elevation of the N projecting bay, near the NW angle (H above ground 2.66m; distance from NW angle 0.28m).
Only a fragment (dims. c. 0.4m x 0.3m) of the graveslab survives. It is decorated in relief with an inscription in Latin, in black letter script, which reads, ‘…. die Septembris’, with the date 1542, as well as another, possibly truncated number, 93, which may be the remains of another date or an age. It translates as ‘…. day September’.

See attached photograph:
KK019-026267-_01 Graveslab
KK019-026267-_02 Location of graveslab in W elevation of N projecting bay

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 31 January 2023

Nearby in the register

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

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