Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Tomb - chest tomb
Fiddown, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Fiddown
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.32862, -7.31482
- SMR number
- KK042-001010-
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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
A chest tomb commemorating a person with the surname ‘Strong’ (forename illegible or not present). The tomb is dated by stylistic analysis to c. 1600. (Cockerham and Harris 2001, 187)
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.
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