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
- 52.65183, -7.25218
- SMR number
- KK019-026364-
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, found rebuilt into mid-18th century E wall of the current chancel during the 2015 excavation (Ó Drisceoil 2019, unpublished). A fragment of a 16th-century chest tomb mensa or ledger, composed of fossiliferous limestone, decorated with an eight-arm cross-head with fleur-de-lis terminals.
Compiled by: Cóilín Ó Drisceoil
Date of upload: 10 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 Unpublished final report for Kilkenny Archaeology.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
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Wall monumentunder 1 mi
- Tomb - effigial (present location)under 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.