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
- KK019-026548-
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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-). Portion of a limestone graveslab (L 0.4m; Wth 0.31m; D 0.13m) with one side, which is chamfered, surviving. It was probably decorated with an incised floriated cross, though only a length of the incised cross-shaft survives. There is a faint incised letter ‘A’ in Lombaric script between the cross-shaft and the broken edge, no other lettering is visible (Duffy 2025, no. 18). The chamfer was dressed with diagonal tooling using a claw chisel (ibid.).
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 Unpublished report.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.