Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Tomb - chest tomb
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
- 52.65182, -7.25181
- SMR number
- KK019-026355-
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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. A fragment of a panel from a 16th-century chest tomb found reused as bedding for a 19th-century altar during the excavation (12E0314) of the chancel of the church (Ó Drisceoil 2019, unpublished). The panel (L 0.8m; Wth 0.45m; T 0.08m), of fossiliferous limestone, is carved with passion instruments in false relief within a frame moulding. From right to left these are the scourging pillar and ropes, the lance, the seamless gown, the dice, the cup, and the crown of thorns surrounding the sacred heart. The panel is broken at the mid-point of the crown of thorns. Possibly from the Kerin school of monumental sculpture. Wear patterns on the carved surface of the panel indicate it was exposed to foot traffic.
Compiled by: Cóilín Ó Drisceoil
Date of upload: 9 January 2023
References
Ó Drisceoil, C. 2019 Excavations at St. Mary's Church and Church Lane, Kilkenny 12E0314. Unpublished final report for Kilkenny Archaeology.
Nearby in the register
- Graveslab (present location)under 1 mi
- Tomb - chest tombunder 1 mi
- Wall monumentunder 1 mi
- Wall monumentunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.