Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveslab
Coolaghmore, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Coolaghmore
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.50200, -7.38446
- SMR number
- KK030-004009-
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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
On a NE-facing slope, in rough grazing with outcropping bedrock. Located c. 7m S of a multiperiod church (KK030-004001-), within an irregularly shaped graveyard (KK030-004003-).
This graveslab (visible H 0.64m; Wth 0.6m) is embedded in the ground. It has a chamfered edge and the upper surface appears to be undecorated, apart from a border, defined by a groove, around the top surface, c. 0.02m from the edge.
There is another roughly rectangular medieval graveslab (KK030-004010-) in the graveyard and Carrigan (1905, vol. 3, 336) mentions 'two uninscribed coffin-shaped slabs [KK030-004010- and KK030-004011-], with raised crosses' of 13th/14th century date in the graveyard, which appear to be in addition to the two graveslabs (KK030-004004- and KK030-004009-) identified during fieldwork.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 18 July 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.