Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Tomb - effigial
Town Parks (kells Upper By.), County Meath, Ireland
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-
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
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
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Religious house - Fratres Cruciferiunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.