Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Tomb - effigial
Donadea Demesne, County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Donadea Demesne
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.34236, -6.74694
- SMR number
- KD009-014003-
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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
Set into a wall alcove on the S side of the chancel of a 19th century Church of Ireland church dedicated to St. Peter which is standing in the N quadrant of a graveyard (KD009-014004-) c. 10m N of a ruined post-medieval church (KD009-014001-) possibly built on the site of an Early Christian church (KD009-014002-). A fine Renaissance canopied-tomb of limestone with the kneeling effigies of Sir Gerald Aylmer (d. 1634) and his wife, Dame Julia Nugent (d. 1617), and panels carrying their coats of arms. A plaque also records, 'This monument was moved from the old church, November, 1812, by Sir Fenton Aylmer Bart.' (Fitzgerald 1891-5, 207; Aylmer 1895, 301, 305-7; Aylmer 1935, 383-5; Killanin and Duignan 1967, 372).
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Revised by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of revised upload: 27 November 2015
References
Killanin, M.M. and Duignan, M.V. 1967 (2nd ed.) The Shell guide to Ireland. London. The Ebury Press.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.