Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
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Blanchvillestown, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Blanchvillestown
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.63081, -7.12514
- SMR number
- KK020-057005-
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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
Within the medieval church of Kylebeg (KK020-057001-). Lying near the S wall of the chancel, at the E end, embedded in the ground. A large rectangular (L 1.5m; Wth 0.52m) limestone recumbent slab. It is decorated in relief with a seven-armed segmental-headed cross with fleur-de-lis terminals, a three-barred knop beneath the cross-head and a banded shaft. A latin inscription in raised Black Letter script runs in a narrow border across the top and down the sinister side of slab. The inscription has been transcribed by Carrigan (1905, vol. 3, 414) as, 'Hic jacet Elisia Blancheuld fi[li]a q obit vi die mensis Desember 1581' and translated as, 'Here lies Ellis, daughter of Leonard Blanchville, who died, Dec. 6th, 1581'.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 11 December 2020
References
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.