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Graveslab

Newtown (Baker), County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Graveslab, Newtown (Baker), 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
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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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

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.

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