Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveslab
Burnchurch, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Burnchurch
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.57540, -7.29714
- SMR number
- KK023-072006-
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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)
- 1868 · 4. Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Within the graveyard (KK023-072002-) associated with the medieval church of Burnchurch (KK023-072001-). A tapering sandstone graveslab (H 0.45m above ground; top Wth 0.46m, T 0.1m) only the upper portion of which is visible as it has been positioned upright in the graveyard where it is reused as a headstone. It is decorated with a deeply incised four-armed lozenge-shaped cross-head with fleur-de-lys terminals. The upper edge of the slab is chamfered (Wth 0.05m).
See attached photograph:
KK023-072006-_01 taken by Christiaan Corlett, 24 August 2022
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 5 September 2022
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.