Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveslab
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
- 52.65589, -7.25353
- SMR number
- KK019-026539-
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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
In St. Francis' Abbey (KK019-026101-). A fragment of a limestone graveslab (L 0.26m; Wth 0.27m; D 0.11m) with chamfered side. A length of both sides survives. The graveslab is decorated with a raised cross, though only the cross-shaft is evident on this fragment. The edge of the slab have a raised border but this has also be chipped away. Both the cross-shaft and raised border were deliberately chipped away to create a roughly flat surface, presumably to facilite its reuse (Duffy 2025, no. 8). The decorated face is dressed with vertical tooling using a claw chisel (ibid.). It is similar in style to two another fragments (KK019-026538- and KK019-026540-) which may be from the same graveslab.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
References
Duffy, P. 2005 Report on a select number of graveslabs which were temporarily moved to the OPW depot, Hebron Industrial Estate from St Francis' Abbey. Unpublished report.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.