Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Tomb - effigial
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, -7.06518
- SMR number
- KK020-060066-
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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
Fragments of an effigy, including two pieces of the head which fit together, where identified by Hunt (1974, vol. 1, 168; vol. 2, plate 35) in St Mary’s parish church (KK020-060006-), Gowran. Hunt (ibid.) describes them as, ‘the head of a civilian with hair curling below the ears, well-drawn and in high relief. There is a part of a moulding above the head. Beside it lies another piece of stone carved with an animal of which the left front leg and part of the body remain. On its back is part of a shoe of a civilian. The hair style of the head suggests a date at the end of the thirteenth century’.
Fragments from the church are stored on-site in the Keally mortuary chapel (projecting from the S wall of the nave) and in the former C of I church at St Mary’s.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 14 August 2019
References
Hunt, J. 1974 Irish medieval figure sculpture 1200-1600, 2 vols. Dublin. Irish University Press.
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