Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
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Newtown (baker), County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Newtown (baker)
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.54542, -7.31750
- SMR number
- KK027-012013-
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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
Associated with the medieval church of Newtown Earley (KK027-012001-) and uncovered during a clean-up of graveyard in 1985-7 (KK027-012009-) (Harte 1987, 408-17). Currently lying within the church.
Described by Carrigan (1905, vol. 3, 327) as a, 'floor-slab with raised floriated cross down the centre; a shield charged with the arms of the Sweetman family, viz. ermine, a fesse, in base a chevron; and the following raised Old English inscription round the edge:-
Hic jacent Willms Swetman baro de Eriey & Joha Tobyn ei exor quor. aiab ppiciet' deus.qi obit Ao di mcccccvii. Ame.
Translation- Here lie William Sweetman, Baron of Erley, who died A.D. 1507, and his wife Johanna Tobyn. On whose souls God have mercy. Amen'.
Harte (ibid. 413, no. 20) provides an illustration and dimensions (L 1.92m; Wth 0.73m).
Reference:
Harte, R. 1987 Tombstones at Newtown Earley. Old Kilkenny Review 39, 408-17.
See attached:
KK027-012013-_01 Photograph
KK027-012012-_02 Illustration from Harte 1987, 413, no. 20
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 2 May 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.