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Architectural fragment

Leggetsrath West, County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Architectural fragment, Leggetsrath West, 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
Leggetsrath West
County
Kilkenny
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.65563, -7.22816
SMR number
KK019-026371-

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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

In the OPW store, Kilkenny (Kilkenny depot stone carving number: KD006). A carved head (L 0.3m; Wth 0.25m; max. D 0.21m), possibly a corbel though it could also have been part of an arch. There is diagonal tooling on the straight sides. It has a grotesque face carved in high relief with frown lines, bulging eyes, a large nose (broken at the end), thick lips with a short tongue protruding. There are striations, similar to those found on Sheela-na-gigs, on the cheeks and down the length of the neck. It is similar to heads at Ferns Castle which are also carved from Dundry stone (Colfter 2013, 65, Fig. 13A). Stylistically this dates to the 13th century.

See attached:
KK019-026371-_01 (photograph by Chris Corlett)

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 25 January 2023

Nearby in the register

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

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