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Tomb - chest tomb

Gardens (Kilkenny City By., St. Mary’s Par.), County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Tomb - chest tomb, Gardens (Kilkenny City By., St. Mary’s Par.), County Kilkenny, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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
52.65166, -7.25212
SMR number
KK019-026313-

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David 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. The upper half of a rectangular slab (L 0.84m; Wth 0.61m), the mensa of a mid-16th-century chest-tomb or ledger from St. Mary's parish church (KK019-026115-). Decorated with a seven-armed segmented ringed cross with geometric fleur-de-lis terminals. The cross-head rises from a shaft which is knobbed at its top. Streamers flank either side of the shaft. A marginal inscription in false relief Latin blackletter reads:
H - QUI OBIT + XIIII DIE MARTIS ----
MCCCCC XLIII OCTOBER
Translation:
H[ere lies] ---- who died 13th March 1543 October
Possibly originally part of the in-situ chest tomb (KK019-026366-) in the NE corner of the N transept. The slab was set into the floor of the Monuments Room in the 1960s. It was moved to its present location in the S transept in 2015.

Compiled by: Cóilín Ó Drisceoil

Date of upload: 4 January 2023

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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