Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveslab
Slanecastle Demesne, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Slanecastle Demesne
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.71705, -6.54323
- SMR number
- ME019-060006-
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
In the graveyard on Slane Hill (ME019-060016-) there is a slab-shrine (ME019-060005-) S of the church tower. Just E of this is the graveslab of W. Kenwan, which is coffin-shaped (Wth 0.52-0.68; L c. 2m) and has an incised cross with fleur-de-lis terminals and a three-step Calvary at the foot. The name is carved at the foot, and a chalice beneath the arms may indicate that he was a priest (Westropp 1901, 418-9; FitzGerald 1915; Bradley and King 1985, 146). It could not be identified in 2014.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 16 June, 2014
References
Bradley, J. and King, H.A. 1985 Urban archaeological survey - county Meath. Unpublished report commissioned by the Office of Public Works, Dublin.
Westropp, T. J. 1901 “Slane in Bregia,” county Meath: its Friary and Hermitage. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, 31, 405-30.
FitzGerald, Lord W. 1915 Slane Abbey. Journal of the Association for the Preservation of the Memorials of the Dead in Ireland, 9, 2, 343-4
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Cross - High crossunder 1 mi
- Shrineunder 1 mi
- Fontunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.