Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveslab (present location)
Leggetsrath West, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Leggetsrath West
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.65531, -7.22841
- SMR number
- KK019-026405-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
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
Originally from the medieval parish church (KK019-026115-) of St Mary's, Kilkenny city. Currently in the OPW store, Kilkenny (Kilkenny depot stone carving number: KD042). A tapering limestone slab, the lower portion of which is missing (Wth at top 0.59m; Wth towards base 0.54m; surviving L 1.3m; T 0.195m). All surfaces have a highly polished finish. The top and sinister side has an upper (Wth 0.07m) and lower (Wth 0.065-0.07m) chamfer while the dexter side is straight. It is decorated with a raised cross with fleur-de-lys terminals and there is a knop along the shaft. The cross arms and shaft and badly spalled. The upper portion of the gravelsab has some bad cracks. Stylistically this dates to the 13th/14th century.
See attached photograph:
KK019-026405-_01 (photograph by Chris Corlett)
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 30 January 2023
Nearby in the register
- Graveslab (present location)under 1 mi
- Graveslab (present location)under 1 mi
- Tomb - chest tomb (present location)under 1 mi
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.