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Tomb - chest tomb

Inistioge, County Kilkenny, Ireland

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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-

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University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

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

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.

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

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