Graveslab in Danesfort, County Kilkenny

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What is recorded here

Within the medieval church (KK023-081001-) of Danesfort. According Carrigan (1905, vol. 3, 371-2), ‘Beside where the altar stood, there is a battered floor-slab of about the year 1500, having a raised floriated cross, down the centre, but no inscription’.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record KK023-081003

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