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Cross

Graiguenamanagh, County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Cross, Graiguenamanagh, 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
Graiguenamanagh
County
Kilkenny
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.54093, -6.95464
SMR number
KK029-018005-

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University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

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)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 14, 1904 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
  • 1911 · Sheet 14, 1911 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

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The National Monuments Service's description

In Graiguenamanagh, in the graveyard adjoining the restored Cistercian abbey church (KK029-018001-), outside the side chapel of the S transept of the church.
Only the rectangular base of the cross survives. It is limestone and the upper portion, which tapers inwards toward the cross-shaft, bears an inscription. There is an armorial plaque, in relief, on one side of the base. Described by O'Leary (1892, 241) as, 'the base and portion of the head of a stone cross raised by Lady Anna to the memory of her father, Edmund, the 2nd Viscount Mountgarrett. A mutilated inscription in raised Roman capitals runs on three sides of a bevel on the base, which may be read thus:- "Domina Anna Butlera Filia Edmundi Butleri Viscomitis Mount-Garret in A.D. 16..".

See attached photograph:
KK029-018005-_01

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 15 March 2022

References

O'Leary, P. 1892 Notes on the Cistercian Abbey of Graignamanagh. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 22, 237-47.

Nearby in the register

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

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