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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
52.62875, -7.06520
SMR number
KK020-060039-

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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 on shelving within the 17th-century mortuary chapel adjoining externally the S wall of the nave of the 13th-century church of St Mary’s (KK020-060006-) in Gowran. Two pieces, which fit together, of a broken straight-sided limestone graveslab (Tot. surviving H 1.02m; upper portion with cross-head H 0.67m; Wth 0.56m; lower portion with cross-shaft H 0.57m; Wth 0.4m)decorated in raised relief with a seven-armed floriated cross with a two bar-knop at the base of the cross-head. There was a raised border (Wth 0.09m) around the edge, but only a portion of this survives on the sinister side. The broken upper portion bears part of the cross-head and sinister margin and the lower portion the cross-shaft and sinister margin. This may be the slab described by Carrigan (1905, vol. 3, 405) as, ‘A very large floor-slab, or table of altar-tomb, now broken, with an eight-pointed cross down the centre, and dating from about the year 1600, has the following Old English inscription, in relief, down one of the sides: Hic jacet Richard Nase et Ellana Shortall exor ei q obiit [ ] die mensis [ ]. This is the entire of the original inscription. The tomb lies in the nave’.

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 18 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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