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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
52.62889, -7.06471
SMR number
KK020-060056-

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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 the floor near the centre of the S wall 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 (max. L 1.72m; surface L 1.61m; overall Wth at top 0.55m; overall Wth at base 0.31m; surface Wth at top 0.44m; surface Wth at base 0.22m; T 0.18m) with a chamfer (Wth 0.08m) around the upper edge. The slab is broken roughly horizontally into three pieces, the upper portion (L 0.6m), the centre portion (L of sinister side 0.28m) and lower portion (L of dexter side 0.57m). The upper surface of the upper dexter side of the lower portion has broken off. The slab is decorated with an incised cross. The cross-head is quite worn and the surface somewhat spalled. It consists of a four-armed banded cross with fleur-de-lis terminals. There is a circular knop below the cross-head and another one above the cross-base. The cross-shaft terminates in a simple fleur-de-lis. There is no visible inscription. Stylistically this dates to the 13th/14th century.

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 20 August 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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