Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Memorial stone (present location)
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
- 52.61931, -7.19608
- SMR number
- KK024-001006-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Carrigan (1905, vol. 3, 225) describes a number of graveslabs associated with the medieval church (KK024-001001-) at Sheastown. He also mentions, 'Portion of a slab, which originally served as the lintel of a door, most probably in some former residence of the Shees, in Sheestown. The inscription belongs to about the middle of the 17th century, is in slightly raised Roman capitals, and reads as follows: HAS AEDES RESTAVRAUIT R..... ARMIGER SVPRADICTI MARC...… ANNO DOMINI 1... . Translation - R[ichard Shee], gentleman, son of the above mentioned M[arcus], restored this house A.D. 1....'. The precise location of this memorial stone within the church or graveyard (KK024001002-) is unknown.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 15 March 2023
References
Carrigan, Rev. W. 1905 (Reprint 1981) The history and antiquities of the diocese of Ossory, 4 vols. Kilkenny. Roberts Books and Wellbrook Press.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.