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Graveslab

Blanchvillestown, County Kilkenny, Ireland

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

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.

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