Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Tomb - chest tomb
Coolfinn, County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Coolfinn
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.27154, -7.29428
- SMR number
- WA008-010004-
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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
Situated at the edge of the floodplain of the River Suir with the W-E Kilbunny Stream 30-40m to the SE. The Romanesque parish church of Guilcagh (WA008-010001-) is within a small rectangular graveyard (WA008-010002-). There are two bullaun stones outside the doorway and an altar has been built into the E wall. Fragments of a chest tomb of Peter Power (dims. c. 1.2m x c. 0.6m) with an inscription in raised roman lettering and the date 1645 and perhaps also two side panels (dims. c. 0.6m x c. 015m) with figures, including a crucifixion, are missing since the late 1960s. (Power 1922, 79)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 26 September 2011
References
Power, Rev. P. 1922 Kilbunny church, Co. Waterford. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 52, 77-80.
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Tomb - effigialunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.