Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveslab
Bishopshall, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bishopshall
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.31629, -7.12444
- SMR number
- KK043-008003-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
University Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid 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 Gaulskill church (KK043-008001-). A graveslab described by Carrigan (1905, vol. 4, 140-41) as broken into two portions with an inscription in English in Roman capitals commemorating Walter FitzPiers Gaul [als. Burke] and his wife Ellise Den. The slab is dated 1642. (Cockerham 2009, 358)
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 31 July 2013
References
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.
Carrigan, Rev. W. 1905 (Reprint 1981) The history and antiquities of the diocese of Ossory, 4 vols. Kilkenny. Roberts Books and Wellbrook Press.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.