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Tomb - chest tomb

Fiddown, County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Tomb - chest tomb, Fiddown, 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
Fiddown
County
Kilkenny
Country
Ireland
Coordinates
52.32862, -7.31482
SMR number
KK042-001004-

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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)
  • 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

A chest tomb commemorating Reddemundus Daton and Ellen Butler, his wife. The tomb is dated by stylistic analysis to c. 1500. (Cockerham and Harris 2001, 178)

Compiled by: Mary Tunney

Date of upload: 27 May 2013

References

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

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

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