Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveslab
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
- 52.65175, -7.25209
- SMR number
- KK019-026287-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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/14th-century coffin-shaped graveslab made from fossiliferous limestone. It is decorated with an incised simple-floriated four-armed cross with fleur-de-lis terminals rising from a cross-shaft interrupted by a two-armed fleur-de-lis below the cross-head (L 0.87m; Wth 0.33m) (Drisceoil 2006, 34; Ó Drisceoil et al 2005, vol. 1, 12). Diagonal tooling evident. The base is truncated. Latin Lombardic inscription on right and left of shaft:
(right) HIC IACET ALLIUS I---- (left) PATERNOS
Translation:
Here lies Allius I ...
Pray for us
The slab was set into the floor of the Monuments Room in the 1960s and was moved to its present location in the S transept 2015.
Compiled by: Cóilín Ó Drisceoil
Date of upload: 21 November 2022
References
Ó Drisceoil, C., Devine, E., Kenny, P., Donoghue, F. 2005 The burial monuments of St. Mary's Church, Kilkenny, an inventory, 10 vols. Unpublished report by Kilkenny Archaeology for the Heritage Council.
Ó Drisceoil, C. 2006 A collection of previously unpublished medieval burial monuments from St. Mary's Church, Kilkenny City. Old Kilkenny Review 58, 29-46.
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