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
- 52.62892, -7.06476
- SMR number
- KK020-060049-
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 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. The upper portion of a tapering slab (L 1.4m; Wth at top 0.52m; Wth at base 0.4m; D 0.24m) It is decorated with a four-armed cross with rounded fleur-de-lis terminals, with a smaller four-armed cross with fleur-de-lis terminals positioned diagonal to, and crossing over and under the arms of, the main cross. Beneath the cross-head there is a barred knop with rounded ends from which a stem with a fleur-de-lis terminal springs on either side of the cross-shaft. The upper edge of the slab is moulded. There is no visible inscription. Stylistically this dates to the 13th/14th century.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 19 August 2019
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