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Graveslab

Gowran, County Kilkenny, Ireland

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

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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

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.

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