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Graveslab

Gardens (Kilkenny City By., St. Mary’s Par.), County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Graveslab, Gardens (Kilkenny City By., St. Mary’s Par.), 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
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
KK019-026551-

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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

In St Francis' Abbey (KK019-026101-). A rectangular limestone graveslab (L 1.865m; Wth 0.6m) inserted in the inner face of the E wall of the abbey, beneath the E window. The wall was refaced in the 19th-century, probably as part of the restoration work in 1868-71 (Bradley 1980, 14, no. 50). It is decorated with a three-armed trefoil-headed cross with lozenge centre. The cross-shaft springs from a curving Calvary mount which incorporates a skull and cross bones. The cross-head and shaft are highlighted by a continuous border in low relief. The upper end of the slab (L 0.55m) is completely blank. The remainder of the slab, which is the portion occupied by the cross, has a border consisting of a narrow band (Wth 0.025m) in low relief. Bradley suggests a 17th-century date for this graveslab (ibid.).

 

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.

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