Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveslab
Gowran, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gowran
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.62890, -7.06509
- SMR number
- KK020-060034-
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid 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
Lying prostrate in the nave (6.5m S of N wall and 10m E of W wall) of the 13th-century church of St Mary’s (KK020-060006-) in Gowran. A tapering sandstone coffin-shaped slab (L 1.42m; max. Wth near top 0.45m; max. surface Wth near top 0.37m; max. Wth at base 0.33m; max. surface Wth at base 0.28m; D 0.7m) with triangular top and chamfered upper edge (Wth 0.05m). The base of the slab is broken off. There is no visible decoration or inscription. Similar tapering slabs with triangular tops date to the 13th/14th-century.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 17 September 2019
Nearby in the register
- Fontunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Wall monumentunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.