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
- 52.62891, -7.06478
- SMR number
- KK020-060047-
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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
Lying on the floor in the NW angle of a 19th-century C of I church which was built on the former chancel of the 13th-century church of St Mary’s (KK020-060006-) in Gowran. A tapering slab (L 1.83m; total Wth towards top 0.57m; total Wth at base 0.42; surface Wth towards top 0.48m; surface Wth at base 0.33m; D 0.12m) which is cracked across the slab towards the base. There are has been some damage to the upper dexter side consisting of a number of small circular depressions and random incised lines. The head of the slab is missing. It is decorated with an incised cross, a fleur-de-lis at the top of the cross-shaft is probably the lower arm of the cross-head. The shaft terminates in a large fleur-de-lis. The upper edge of the sides and base of the slab has a slightly hollow chamfered (Wth 0.-6-0.07m). Stylistically this dates to the 13th/14th century.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 19 August 2019
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.