Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Tomb - effigial
Painestown (duleek Lower By., Painestown Par.), County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Painestown (duleek Lower By., Painestown Par.)
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.68028, -6.57089
- SMR number
- ME026-002001-
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
The effigy of a woman (H 1.3m; Wth 0.46m) sculpted in a shroud that is lacking the head and upper body (Hunt 1974, 214) was moved to St. Patrick’s Church of Ireland church in Slane (ME019-023001-) where it is displayed on the S wall of the vestry.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 11 July, 2014
References
Hunt, J. 1974 Irish medieval figure sculpture 1200-1600, 2 vols. Dublin. Irish University Press.
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Fontunder 1 mi
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.