What is recorded here

Graveslab in Gardens (kilkenny City By., St. Mary’s Par.) stands as a broken limestone tapering slab inside St Francis' Abbey, its lower half preserving a faint cross-shaft and fleur-de-lis. The missing upper section suggests a taller marker, perhaps for someone whose identity time has erased. What remains is enough to show that death was marked here with care, even when memory faded.

In St Francis' Abbey (KK019-026101-). Only the lower half of this limestone tapering graveslab survives (L 0.96m; Wth at top 0.51m; Wth at base 0.46m; D 0.165m). It is decorated with cross, only the cross-shaft (Wth 0.025m), in relief, survives terminating in a fleur-de-lis with a circular knop immediately above it. There is a steep chamfer (Wth 0.07m) along the sides, with a horizontal incised line at the base of the chamfer, and a chamfer (Wth 0.05m) with drafting along the base. The graveslab is described and illustrated in Bradley (1980, 14, 21, no. 46). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Early Christian gravestone, 7th–9th century. Its carved cross indicates a Christian burial, likely associated with the monastic settlement of St Francis' Abbey, reflecting the spread of Christianity in medieval Ireland.

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