Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Tomb - effigial
Dunfierth, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dunfierth
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Grave Yard
- Latest-edition OS map
- Grave Yd.
- Coordinates
- 53.38979, -6.83409
- SMR number
- KD004-005002-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In a medieval church (KD004-005001-) containing an early-19th century Hamilton burial vault which incorporates substantial parts of a mid-16th century Bermingham altar tomb. A mensa slab with the effigy of Sir William Bermingham (died 1548) in 'white' armour stands upright inside the vault and the side panels of the tomb (which would have supported the mensa slab) each carved with six figures of the apostles are incorporated into the outer faces of the N and S walls of the burial vault, with an end panel showing the Christ crucified on the outer face of the W wall. On the inner wall face at E a panel fragment is carved with the subject of an 'Ecce Homo' (Hunt 1971, 12-16). There is also a carved limestone fragment showing a shield and inscribed 'TB A 1519'. The tomb may belong to the same workshop which produced the Wellesley monument at Great Connell (KD023-016----) (ibid 156-58).
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 10 June 2011
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Tomb - chest tombunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.