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Tomb - effigial

Town Parks (Kells Upper By.), County Meath, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Tomb - effigial, Town Parks, County Meath, 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
Town Parks (Kells Upper By.)
County
Meath
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.72703, -6.87278
SMR number
ME017-044036-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Vltoniae Orientalis Pars" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1636 · Vltoniae Orientalis Pars (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (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

The crudely carved effigy of a woman (L 1.43m; Wth 0.34-0.39m; T 0.1-0.15m) is against the N wall at the NW angle of St. John’s graveyard (ME017-044035-). She is wearing a pillbox hat, a long gown belted at the waist and with a broach at her throat. She has a T-shaped walking stick and pointed shoes. (Hickey 1974; Hunt 1974, 206; Mc Cabe 2007, 139)

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload: 2 July, 2014

References

Mc Cabe, B. 2007 Survey of St. John's Graveyard, Kells. Ríocht na Mídhe, 18, 136-150.

Hickey, E. 1974 Medieval stone at Saint John's Cemetery, Kells. Ríocht na Mídhe, 5, 4, 104-05.

Hunt, J. 1974 Irish medieval figure sculpture 1200-1600, 2 vols. Dublin. Irish University Press.

Nearby in the register

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

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