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Graveslab

Templemartin (Gowran By., Clara ED), County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Graveslab, Templemartin, 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
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-

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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)
  • 1904 · Sheet 14, 1904 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

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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.

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