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
- 52.65163, -7.25245
- SMR number
- KK019-026295-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
At St Mary's parish church (KK019-026115-) in Kilkenny. Fragment of 13th/14th-century uninscribed graveslab, made from fossiliferous limestone (Bradley 1980, 10-11, no. 28). Reused in the W face of the 1804 cross wall in the graveyard (KK019-026156-), connecting the S side of the church with the churchyard wall. Rectangular fragment of the top of a graveslab (dims. 0.51m x 0.36m) decorated in false-relief with a three-armed cross with fleur-de-lis terminals. The shaft of the cross has been truncated below the cross-head.
Compiled by: Cóilín Ó Drisceoil and Jean Farrelly
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.
Nearby in the register
- Wall monumentunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Sarcophagusunder 1 mi
- Wall monumentunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.