Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
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Dungarvan (gowran By., Bennettsbridge Ed), County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dungarvan (gowran By., Bennettsbridge Ed)
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.58650, -7.09450
- SMR number
- KK024-068007-
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
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
Within the graveyard associated with the medieval church of Dungarvan (KK024-068002-). Carrigan (1905, vol. 3, 418) noted within the graveyard, ‘about half-a-dozen coffin-shaped, uninscribed slabs, all with incised crosses, and some with carvings in relief of human heads’. One of these head-slabs is visible upright in the graveyard, partially embedded in the ground. It is described by Hunt (1974, vol. 1, 166) as, ‘carved in high relief with the head of a woman above a floreate cross. The hair hangs down over the shoulders…The stone is much worn and abraded. The date is thirteenth century’. It is a tapering slab with a chamber along the top.
See attached photograph:
KK024-068006-_10 Graveslab (Farrelly and O’Reilly, 7 July 1992)
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 29 April 2021
References
Hunt, J. 1974 Irish medieval figure sculpture 1200-1600, 2 vols. Dublin. Irish University Press.
Nearby in the register
- Tomb - effigialunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.