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
- 52.65190, -7.25209
- SMR number
- KK019-026288-
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid 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 inscribed graveslab (dims. 0.55m x 0.52m) made from fossiliferous limestone (Bradley 1980, 10, no. 25). The upper half of a graveslab reused as a quoinstone in the NE corner of the vestry St. Mary’s Church. The slab bears an incised simple-floriated cross rising from an orb above the cross-shaft. The cross-head spandrels are occupied by incised circles. The right and left of the cross-head bears the original chamfer and the top and base is truncated. An incised inscription in Roman capital occupies the right below the cross-head. It reads: R R I B.
Compiled by: Cóilín Ó Drisceoil
Date of upload: 21 November 2022
References
Bradley, J. 1980 Some new and neglected tomb slabs and fragments from Kilkenny. Old Kilkenny Review vol. 2, no. 2 (new series), 5-21.
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