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
- 52.62882, -7.06502
- SMR number
- KK020-060036-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
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
Lying prostrate in the nave (2.65m N of the S wall and 6.8m W of the E wall of the S aisle) of the 13th-century church of St Mary’s (KK020-060006-) in Gowran. A tapering sandstone slab (L 1.58m; max. Wth at top 0.53m; surface Wth at top 0.44m; max. Wth at base 0.4m; surface Wth at base 0.3m; D 0.15m) with a concave chamfer around the upper edge. The top sinister corner of the slab is missing. 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.