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
- KK019-026541-
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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
In St Francis' Abbey (KK019-026101-). A portion of one side of a limestone graveslab (L 0.34m; Wth 0.205m; D 0.14m), which has a raised border and chamfer side. It bears an incised inscription in Lombardic script. The inscription is transcribed and translated by Bradley (1980, 13, no. 42) as, ‘…RE: GIT: …[M]ERCI’, ‘(Here lies)... re. (God have) mercy (on his/her soul)’. There is possible incised decoration immediately above the ‘GIT’ which may be part of a fleur-de-lis.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
References
Bradley, J. 1980 Some new and neglected tomb slabs and fragments from Kilkenny. Old Kilkenny Review vol. 2, no. 2 (new series), 5-21.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.