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
- 52.54544, -7.31749
- SMR number
- KK027-012027-
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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.
A tapering slab (L 1.97m; Wth at top 0.63m; Wth at base 0.37m), with chamfered edge, decorated with an incised four-armed floriated with a circle at the centre of the cross-head. The shaft terminates in a fleur-de-lys, with a knop above it. There is an inscription in Lombardic script on the upper surface along the dexter side. Stylistically this graveslab dates to the 13th/14th century. Harte (1987, 415, no. 26) has an illustration with dimensions of this slab but no description. It is very similar to another graveslab (KK027-012017-) in the assemblage, which also has a Lombardic inscription.
Reference:
Harte, R. 1987 Tombstones at Newtown Earley. Old Kilkenny Review 39, 408-17.
See attached:
KK027-012027-_01 Illustration from Harte 1987, 415, no. 26
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 4 May 2023
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.