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
- 52.62875, -7.06521
- SMR number
- KK020-060040-
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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
In 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. A tapering sandstone slab (max. L 0.84m; max. Wth at top 0.39m; surface Wth at top 0.32m; max. Wth at base 0.29m; surface Wth at base 0.22m; T 0.12) with a chamfer around the upper edge (Wth 0.035m). The slab is broken horizontally along the top. It is decorated with an incised cross but this is very worn and only the cross-shaft and traces of the cross-base are evident. The underside of the slab appears to have a concave profile suggesting it may have been a tomb lid. Similar tapering slabs date to the 13th/14th-century.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 18 September 2019
Nearby in the register
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Armorial plaqueunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Tomb - effigialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.