Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveslab
Kilmainhamwood, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilmainhamwood
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.85123, -6.81084
- SMR number
- ME005-028001-
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 1636 "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
This has been described by King (1987, 294). Effigial slab. c. 1690. This rectangular slab lies in the old churchyard on top of the hill above kilmainhamwood. It depicts a male and female effigy in relief under an angel’s head. The lady on the left side is smaller in stature than her husband, and she is missing the lower part of her right arm. There is no inscription visible. Dimensions: L 2.08m; Wth 1.04m; T 0.12m.
Date of upload/revision: 31 July 2007
References
King, H.A. 1987 Seventeenth-century effigial sculpture in the north Meath area. In E. Rynne (ed.), Figures from the past: studies on figurative art in Christian Ireland in honour of Helen M. Roe, 283-307. Dun Laoghaire. Glendale Press.
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Sheela-na-gigunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.