Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveslab
Sheastown, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Sheastown
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.61940, -7.19610
- SMR number
- KK024-001003-
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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
Set upright in the chancel of the medieval church of Kilferagh (KK024-001001-), just inside the doorway to the N (Manning 2012, 144). Described as, 'Part of a coffin-shaped monument' by Carrigan (1905, vol. 3, 225). A 13th/14th-century tapering slab decorated with the lower terminal of an incised floriated cross (Manning 2012, 144).
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 14 September 2021
References
Carrigan, Rev. W. 1905 (Reprint 1981) The history and antiquities of the diocese of Ossory, 4 vols. Kilkenny. Roberts Books and Wellbrook Press.
Manning, C. 2012 Kilferagh, Co. Kilkenny: a medieval parish and its church. Journal of Irish Archaeology 21, 139-56.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.