Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Tomb - chest tomb
Inistioge, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Inistioge
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.48927, -7.06580
- SMR number
- KK032-017023-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
University Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
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
In the Lady Chapel at the Augustinian Priory (KK032-017004-) in Inistioge. The upper part of a chest tomb with a floriated raised cross, a salmon in relief and ‘IHS’. The Latin inscription, in Black Letter, runs around the edge and commemorates Peter Joyce. The slab dates to c. 1580. (Carrigan 1905, vol. 4, 113; Cockerham and Harris 2001, 184)
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 29 May 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. and Harris, L. 2001 Kilkenny funeral monuments 1500-1600: a statistical and analytical account. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 101C, 135-88.
Nearby in the register
- Religious house - Augustinian canonsunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.