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, -7.25243
- SMR number
- KK019-026296-
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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. Fragment of 13th/14th-century uninscribed graveslab, made from fossiliferous limestone (Ó Drisceoil 2006, 11). Reused in the W face of the 1804 cross wall in the graveyard (KK019-026156-) of St. Mary’ Church. Rectangular fragment (dims. 0.5m x 0.37m) of a truncated graveslab with incised cross-shaft (Wth of shaft 0.04m) (Bradley 1980, 10, no. 27).
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.
Ó Drisceoil, C. 2006 A collection of previously unpublished medieval burial monuments from St. Mary's Church, Kilkenny City.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
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Sarcophagusunder 1 mi
- Wall monumentunder 1 mi
- Wall monumentunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.