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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
52.65193, -7.25218
SMR number
KK019-026366-

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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, in-situ on the E side of the N wall of the N transept. It was uncovered, sealed beneath a late 18th-century floor level in the 2015 excavations (12E0314) (Ó Drisceoil 2019; 2020, 169).
A rectangular late 16th-century chest tomb (L 2.1m; Wth 0.85m; H 0.5m), built of fossiliferous limestone, set on a chamfered plinth. The front (S) panel shows geometric stylised Decorated-style church windows. The left (W) side panel shows a crisply carved Decorated-style geometric church window. The right (E) and rear (N) sides were stone walls. The interior is filled with clay and rubble. The cover slab was missing when excavated but a previously recorded fragment of a mensa (KK019-026313-) with a date of 1543 may have derived from the tomb. The chest tomb is on display in situ within the N transept.

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 Unpublished final report for Kilkenny Archaeology.

Ó Drisceoil, C. 2020 ‘Yet notin is more certaine than death, nor uncertaine, than the houre theirof': excavations in the chantry chapels of St. Mary's church, Kilkenny’, in C. Corlett and M. Potterton (eds.), The Town in Medieval Ireland in the light of recent archaeological excavations, 161-84. Bray. Wordwell.

Nearby in the register

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

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