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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
52.65264, -7.18860
SMR number
KK020-009005-

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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 nave of St. Martin's medieval church (KK020-009001-). One of two 13th/14th-century graveslabs (see also KK020-009004-) standing upright inside the S wall of the nave, immediately E of the S doorway. A tapering limestone slab (H 1.09m above ground level; Wth 0.67m at broader upper end; T 0.15m) with a narrow chamfer (Wth 0.05m) about its perimeter. The E face is decorated with a three-armed incised cross-head with lozenge and fleur-de-lis terminals. There is a circular knop beneath the cross-head consisting of two concentric incised lines with two curving concentric lines rising from this knop on either side of the cross-shaft to meet the lower incised lines of the lozenge. The cross-shaft consists of two parallel incised lines and the cross-base is not visible as it is below ground level.

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 11 November 2020

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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