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Cross-slab

Killamery, County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Cross-slab, Killamery, 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
Killamery
County
Kilkenny
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.47517, -7.44561
SMR number
KK030-008013-

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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)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

A cross-slab (0.38m x 0.22m) originally located in Killamery graveyard (KK030-008010-) but not currently visible. The stone bore an Irish inscription ‘Ór ar Thuathal’ (A prayer for Tuathal) under an incised single-line Latin cross (L c. 0.12m) with enlarged ends. Carrigan (1905, vol. 4, 315) described the stone as a very small freestone flag, thin and rough. (Crawford 1913, 261; Manning 1982, 378-9)

Compiled by: Mary Tunney

Date of upload: 16 July 2013

References

Carrigan, Rev. W. 1905 (Reprint 1981) The history and antiquities of the diocese of Ossory, 4 vols. Kilkenny. Roberts Books and Wellbrook Press.

Crawford, H.S. 1913 A descriptive list of early cross-slabs and pillars. (cont.) Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 43, 151-69, 261-5, 326-34.

Manning, C. 1982 Cross-slab at Killamery. Old Kilkenny Review, vol. 2, no. 4, 378-9.

Nearby in the register

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

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