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
- KK019-026542-
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid 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 St Francis' Abbey (KK019-026101-). A portion of the upper side of a limestone graveslab (L 0.23m; Wth 0.17m; D 0.17m). It is decorated with a floriated cross within a double incised circle. Only portion of one fleur-de-lis and an arc of the enclosing circle survives. This fragment is described by Bradley (1980, 14, no. 52).
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.