What is recorded here

Graveslab in Gardens (kilkenny City By., St. Mary’s Par.) preserves a broken limestone edge where a floriated cross once emerged. The surviving shaft and faint Lombaric ‘A’ suggest a name was lost before the stone was buried in garden soil. What remains is enough to show that death, memory and making still meet beneath ordinary ground.

In St Francis' Abbey (KK019-026101-). Portion of a limestone graveslab (L 0.4m; Wth 0.31m; D 0.13m) with one side, which is chamfered, surviving. It was probably decorated with an incised floriated cross, though only a length of the incised cross-shaft survives. There is a faint incised letter ‘A’ in Lombaric script between the cross-shaft and the broken edge, no other lettering is visible (Duffy 2025, no. 18). The chamfer was dressed with diagonal tooling using a claw chisel (ibid.). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Medieval Christian graveslab, 12th–13th century. Its presence in the former St Francis' Abbey indicates its association with a monastic burial tradition, reflecting the religious and funerary practices of the medieval period in Ireland.

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