What is recorded here

Graveslab in Gardens (kilkenny City By., St. Mary’s Par.) is a tombstone with an incised cross, buried beneath the foundations of a later building in County Kilkenny. It may have marked a forgotten grave before the town grew upward, swallowing the dead beneath new walls. The cross still points downward now, waiting for someone to read what the soil once hid.

A ‘tombstone’ with an incised cross. One of two tombstones (KK019-026180-) found under the foundations of a building (KK019-026053-). (Farrelly et al. 1993, vol. 1, 43) Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 9 May 2013

A Christian burial marker, likely medieval in date, significant as part of a small group of early tombstones found in situ in Kilkenny.

The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.