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Graveslab (present location)

Leggetsrath West, County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Graveslab (present location), 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
52.65531, -7.22841
SMR number
KK019-026412-

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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

From Jerpoint Abbey (KK028-062005-) Cistercian monastery, Co. Kilkenny. Currently in the OPW store, Kilkenny (Kilkenny depot stone carving number: KD049). A tapering rectangular limestone slab (L 1.14m; max. Wth 0.63m; min. Wth 0.58m; T 0.18m). Normally the wider portion of a graveslab is decorated with a cross-head with the cross-base at the narrower portion. This graveslab is incomplete, the narrower end is missing and it is not decorated with a conventional cross, however, for this description the wider end is assumed to be the top.
The slab is decorated with a raised central shaft which terminates with a narrow pointed triangle at the wider end of the slab. Before the break in the slab there is a knop on the shaft, with a raised band projecting from it at a 50° angle, continuing to the dexter edge of the slab and extending along the edge, but terminating some distance from the top. There is a very shallow chamfer (Wth 0.075m) along both edges and along the top. The decoration may represent an object associated with a particular craft or profession. There is no indication of an inscription.

See attached photograph:
KK019-026412-_01 (photograph by Chris Corlett)

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 30 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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