What is recorded here

Graveslab in Gardens (kilkenny City By., St. Mary’s Par.) is a 13th/14th-century uninscribed graveslab fragment reused in the 1804 cross wall at St Mary’s parish church in Kilkenny. Its fossiliferous limestone bears a false-relief three-armed cross with fleur-de-lis terminals, the shaft truncated below the cross-head. The top fragment measures 0.51m by 0.36m and now sits on the W face of the wall connecting the church’s S side to the churchyard wall.

At St Mary's parish church (KK019-026115-) in Kilkenny. Fragment of 13th/14th-century uninscribed graveslab, made from fossiliferous limestone (Bradley 1980, 10-11, no. 28). Reused in the W face of the 1804 cross wall in the graveyard (KK019-026156-), connecting the S side of the church with the churchyard wall. Rectangular fragment of the top of a graveslab (dims. 0.51m x 0.36m) decorated in false-relief with a three-armed cross with fleur-de-lis terminals. The shaft of the cross has been truncated below the cross-head. Compiled by: Cóilín Ó Drisceoil and Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 21 November 2022

Medieval Christian graveslab, 13th/14th century. Significant as a reused funerary monument illustrating medieval burial practices and stone reuse in ecclesiastical contexts.

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