Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Coffin-resting stone
Slade, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Slade
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.53892, -7.41283
- SMR number
- KK026-009----
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
This area is known as 'heaven', a place where coffins are rested (pers. comm. Joe Kennedy 1986). The resting place is at a junction of several field boundaries and is associated with a Mass path.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 9 May 2022
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.