Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveslab
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, -7.31743
- SMR number
- KK027-012024-
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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.
The lower portion of a tapering slab (surviving L 1.06m; Wth across mid-point 0.5m; Wth 0.39m at base) which is described by Harte (ibid. 410) as being decorated by a cross in false relief. Only the lower portion of the cross survives, consisting of a shaft which terminates in a fleur-de-lys with a knop immediately above it. The top edge of the slab is chamfered. Stylistically this graveslab dates to the 13th/14th century. (Harte 1987, 411, no. 15).
Reference:
Harte, R. 1987 Tombstones at Newtown Earley. Old Kilkenny Review 39, 408-17.
See attached:
KK027-012024-_01 Illustration from Harte 1987, 411, no. 15
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 4 May 2023
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