Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Tomb - effigial
Gardens (kilkenny City By., St. Mary’s Par.), County Kilkenny, Ireland
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
- 52.65176, -7.25209
- SMR number
- KK019-026282-
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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
At St Mary's parish church (KK019-026115-) in Kilkenny. A 13th-century head-slab of a woman (L 1.72m; Wth 0.62m; T 0.2m), made from fossiliferous limestone. Originally situated ‘behind the chancel’ (Hunt 1974, vol. 1, 196). Hunt records it as, ‘…a tapering coffin-shaped slab with chamfered edge, the lower end pointed and bearing a cross with fleur-de-lis terminals and decoration, topped by the head of a woman in a pill-box head-dress with side-nets. This slab is extremely worn and practically all the detail has vanished. It probably dates to the thirteenth century’ (Hunt 1974, vol. 1, 196). The slab was set into the concrete floor of the former Monuments Room in the N transept of St. Mary's church in the 1960s but it was moved to its present location in the S transept in 2015.
Compiled by: Cóilín Ó Drisceoil
Date of upload: 21 November 2022
References
Hunt, J. 1974 Irish medieval figure sculpture 1200-1600, 2 vols. Dublin. Irish University Press.
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