Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Wall monument
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, -7.25245
- SMR number
- KK019-026339-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
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, built into the cross wall constructed in 1804 connecting the SW side of the church with the graveyard wall. A rectangular early to mid-17th century cartouche panel (L 0.72m; Wth 0.59m), composed of fossiliferous limestone, bearing an heraldic shield of Kelly impaling Grace (Crotty 1978, 312-13). Grace arms of the lion rampant have been incised. At the base of the slab in incised Roman lettering is the motto ‘TURRUS FORTIS MIHI DEUS’, which translates as, To me God is a brave tower.
Compiled by: Cóilín Ó Drisceoil
Date of upload: 4 January 2023
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.