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
- 52.65157, -7.25201
- SMR number
- KK019-026303-
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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 coffin-shaped graveslab (L 0.54m; Wth 0.46m; T 0.18m) with chamfered edge, made from fossiliferous limestone (Ó Drisceoil 2006, 37). Reused as grave maker in the graveyard (KK019-026156-) associated with the church. There is no legible inscription. It is partially buried.
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Ó Drisceoil, C. 2006 A collection of previously unpublished medieval burial monuments from St. Mary's Church, Kilkenny City.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.
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