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
- 52.65173, -7.25257
- SMR number
- KK019-026299-
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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 external face of the W wall of the1820 tower of the church. The slab bears an incised cross-head. The arms have trefoil termini. The top of the cross has been removed. It has been modified to a rectangular block.
Compiled by: Cóilín Ó Drisceoil
Date of upload: 21 November 2022
References
Ó Drisceoil, C. 2006 A collection of previously unpublished medieval burial monuments from St. Mary's Church, Kilkenny City.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.