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
- 52.65161, -7.25244
- SMR number
- KK019-026357-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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, reused in the W face of the 1804 cross wall in the graveyard of the church (Ó Drisceoil 2006, 43). Fragment of a front panel from a 16th-century chest tomb, composed of fossiliferous limestone. It is decorated with six pointed niches containing foliate motifs in false relief. The base has been truncated as has the left. It is possibly from the same monument as KK019-026356-.
Compiled by: Cóilín Ó Drisceoil
Date of upload: 9 January 2023
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Ó Drisceoil, C. 2006 A collection of previously unpublished medieval burial monuments from St. Mary's Church, Kilkenny City.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.
Nearby in the register
- Tomb - chest tombunder 1 mi
- Sarcophagusunder 1 mi
- Wall monumentunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.