Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveslab
Templemartin (gowran By., Clara Ed), County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Templemartin (gowran By., Clara Ed)
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.65265, -7.18851
- SMR number
- KK020-009003-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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).
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
In the chancel of St. Martin's medieval church (KK020-009001-). One of two 16th-century graveslabs (see also KK020-009006-) within the chancel. Described by Carrigan (1905, vol. 3, 363) as, 'a floor-slab with a raised eight-pointed cross down the centre, and the following raised letter Old English [Black Letter] inscription [in latin] around the edge: Hic jacent Ricardus [Sh]ortale quodam dns de rahirtmore qui obit [ ] die me Marche Ano Di mccccc 84, et Elicia Purcell uxor ei que obit xxiii die mesis decebcis ano do mccccclxii.
Translation - Here lie Richard Shortall, lord of Rathardmore, who died the [ ] of March 1584, and his wife Ellis Purcell, who died Dec. 23rd 1562'.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 9 November 2020
References
Cockerham. P. and Harris, L. 2001 Kilkenny funeral monuments 1500-1600: a statistical and analytical account. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 101C, 135-88.
Carrigan, Rev. W. 1905 (Reprint 1981) The history and antiquities of the diocese of Ossory, 4 vols. Kilkenny. Roberts Books and Wellbrook Press.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.