Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
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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
- 52.62885, -7.06503
- SMR number
- KK020-060035-
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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 from S wall and 6.5m W of W wall of tower) of the 13th-century church of St Mary’s (KK020-060006-) in Gowran. A tapering sandstone slab (L 1.94m; Wth at top 0.56m; Wth at base 0.34m; D 0.15m) with straight sides. The top and base of the slab are broken and the surface is cracked and damaged, with a large crack running from the dexter corner to the middle of the sinister side. There is no visible decoration or inscription. Similar tapering slabs date to the 13th/14th-century.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 17 September 2019
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.