Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Tomb - chest tomb
Knocktophermanor, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knocktophermanor
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.48324, -7.21536
- SMR number
- KK031-017004-
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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
An altar tomb with a Latin inscription in Black Letter commemorating Geoffrey Power (d. 1616) and his wife Margaret Waton (d. 1620). The slab is dated to 1610. (Carrigan 1905, vol. 4, 23-4; Cockerham 2009, 353)
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 1 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.
Cockerham, P. 2009 My body to be buried in my owne monument: the social and religious context of Co. Kilkenny funeral monuments, 1600-1700. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 109C, 239-365.
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Tomb - effigialunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.