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Architectural fragment

Sheepstown, County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Architectural fragment, Sheepstown, 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
Sheepstown
County
Kilkenny
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.48494, -7.24344
SMR number
KK031-015006-

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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)
  • 1911 · Sheet 14, 1911 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Currently fixed on top of the reduced N wall of the medieval church at Sheepstown (KK031-015001-), at the W end. A portion of cloister arcading from Jerpoint Abbey (KK028-062005-), which lies 6.5km to the NE, had been brought to the graveyard as a grave-marker (Manning 1975, 118-9; OPW correspondence and field notes). It is described by Manning (1975, 118) as, ‘the lower half of a dumb-bell sectioned cloister column with a carving in relief of the lower half of a two-bodied grotesque with wings and claws, and tails spiralling inwards towards each other’. The fragment was probably cemented into its present position during repair works carried out at the site in 1951 (ibid., 119).

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 15 February 2016

References

Manning, C. 1975 Jerpoint cloister fragment at Sheepstown. Old Kilkenny Review 1 (2), 118-9.

Nearby in the register

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

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