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
- 52.65159, -7.25258
- SMR number
- KK019-026307-
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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 a 13th/14th-century graveslab (L 0. 74m; Wth 0.45m; T 0.17), made from fossiliferous limestone, decorated with an incised cross-head with fleur-de-lis termini. Slots carved for two iron brackets truncate the cross-head. Reused in the W entrance pier main entrance gateway to the churchyard. Currently stored in St. Mary’s church graveyard (KK019-026156-).
Compiled by: Cóilín Ó Drisceoil
Date of upload: 21 November 2022
Nearby in the register
- Graveslabunder 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.