Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveslab
Prospecthall, County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Prospecthall
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- WA040A001003-
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The National Monuments Service's description
Located on a knoll on a N-facing slope overlooking the estuary of the Blackwater River, just the NW. The parish church of Kinsallabeg (WA040A001001-) is within a rectangular graveyard (WA040A001002-). An early 17th-century graveslab with a Latin inscription commemorating Elizabeth, the daughter of Sir Edward Harris of Ardmore and Youghal, and the wife of a Lancaster, precentor of Lismore in 1616 (Power 1898a, 200-201), can no longer be found in the graveyard.
Power, Rev. P. (1898a) Ancient ruined churches of Co. Waterford, WAJ 4, 83-95, 195-219.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 20 October, 2011