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
- 52.65167, -7.25211
- SMR number
- KK019-026291-
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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 graveslab fragment (L 0.48m; Wth 0.35m), made from fossiliferous limestone, uncovered in the 2015 excavations at the church (Ó Drisceoil 2019, unpublished). Fragment of a slab with chamfered edges and incised cross shaft with fleur-de-lis terminal. Reused for Thomas Archer 1617 and Margaret Knaresborough mural tomb support, currently under floor S wall S transept of the church.
Compiled by: Cóilín Ó Drisceoil
Date of upload: 21 November 2022
References
Ó Drisceoil, C. 2019 Excavations at St. Mary's Church and Church Lane, Kilkenny 12E0314. Unpublished final report for Kilkenny Archaeology.
Nearby in the register
- Tomb - effigialunder 1 mi
- Tomb - chest tombunder 1 mi
- Tomb - chest tombunder 1 mi
- Wall monumentunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.