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Tomb - effigial

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

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Tomb - effigial, 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
52.65183, -7.25239
SMR number
KK019-026285-

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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

At St Mary's parish church (KK019-026115-) in Kilkenny. An effigy of a male dating from the second quarter of the 14th century (L 1.98m; Wth 0.53m; T 0.38m) made from fossiliferous limestone. Hunt describes it as, ‘a coffin-shaped slab with the figure of a man in a long gown to the ankles. He wears a shoulder-cape, the hood thrown back behind his head with its liripipe hanging down its right side almost to the elbow. The gown has short sleeves to the elbows with pendant lappets to mid-thigh. His hands are clasped together in prayer. His hair hangs in decorative locks curling below the ears and he has a beard. The head rests on a double cushion and his feet on a foliate socle. The date is second quarter of the fourteenth century’ (Hunt 1974, vol. 1, 197).

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.

Nearby in the register

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

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