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Tomb - effigial

Callan South, County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Tomb - effigial, Callan South, County Kilkenny, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Callan South
County
Kilkenny
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.54404, -7.38993
SMR number
KK026-010049-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (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

Lying prostrate near the W end of the central aisle of the nave of St Mary’s church (KK026-010012-), Callan. A much weathered tapering effigial tomb (Total L 1.94m; Wth at top 0.64m, tapering to 0.35m at base; min. T 0.1m), covered in lichen, it is possibly of sandstone. The slab is broken, horizontally, beneath the neck of the figure (upper portion max. L 0.33m; lower portion max. L 1.68m) and is very badly spalled. The top and sides are straight and the edge of the base is chamfered, sloping outward. The figure is described by Hunt (1974, vol. 1, 165) as wearing, ‘a mantle over a gown to the feet. One hand held the mantle string and a fold of the garment under the arm. The left hand held the other edge of the mantle. The style is that of the late thirteenth or early fourteenth-century Ossory school’.

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 13 November 2019

References

Hunt, J. 1974 Irish medieval figure sculpture 1200-1600, 2 vols. Dublin. Irish University Press.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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