What is recorded here

Graveslab in Newtown (baker) preserves an eight-armed floriated cross from the 13th or 14th century, buried beside Newtown Earley and brought into the church after a graveyard clean-up. Its broken corner still displays interlace and a central decorated circle, large enough to suggest a person of importance or pride. The slab does not claim to be complete; it invites imagination about the life marked beneath stone and the hands that carved it.

Associated with the medieval church of Newtown Earley (KK027-012001-) and uncovered during a clean-up of graveyard in 1985-7 (KK027-012009-) (Harte 1987, 408-17). Currently lying within the church. The upper dexter portion of a graveslab (surviving L 0.4m; surving Wth at top 0.5m), decorated with an eight-armed floriated interlace cross-head, within a double-lined circle. At the centre of the cross-head there is a decorative motif within a circle. Only two of arms and most of the central decoration are on this portion of the slab. Stylistically this graveslab dates to the 13th/14th century. (Harte 1987, 411, no. 17). Reference: Harte, R. 1987 Tombstones at Newtown Earley. Old Kilkenny Review 39, 408-17. See attached: KK027-012026-_01 Illustration from Harte 1987, 411, no. 17 Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 4 May 2023

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