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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
52.65175, -7.25209
SMR number
KK019-026287-

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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. 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 Unpublished report by Kilkenny Archaeology for the Heritage Council.

Ó Drisceoil, C. 2006 A collection of previously unpublished medieval burial monuments from St. Mary's Church, Kilkenny City.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.

Nearby in the register

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

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