Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveslab
Killeshin, County Laois, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killeshin
- County
- Laois
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.84737, -7.00127
- SMR number
- LA032-020009-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Unable to locate recumbent 17th century graveslab located S of Killeshin church (LA032-020002-) in S quadrant of graveyard (LA032-020004-). According to Fitzgerald (1910, 198) ‘the oldest tombstone appears to be dated 1688; it is a flat slab on the south side of the churchyard and was erected to the memory of John Dodd’s and Bryan Hogan’s families’.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 26 March 2015
References
Fitzgerald, Lord W. 1910 The Killeshin Church ruins, Queen's County. Journal of the Kildare Archaeological Society 6, 185-205.
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Fontunder 1 mi
- Round towerunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.