Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Tomb - effigial
Nicholastown (kilcullen Ed), County Kildare, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Nicholastown (kilcullen Ed)
- County
- Kildare
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Effigy
- Coordinates
- 53.12770, -6.73508
- SMR number
- KD028-040002-
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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 graveyard (KD028-040001-) which is also the site of ‘New Abbey’ (KD028-040----). Known as the Portlester (FitzEustace) Tomb. The surviving remains consist of the limestone mensa with the figures of Roland Eustace and his wife Margaret D’Artois, carved in high relief. He is depicted as a medieval knight, completely covered in plate armour with sword hanging, slightly askew, in front, while she, to his right, wears a belted dress and high horned bonnet. Their heads rest on square cushions. Decorated side panels have been incorporated in the low surviving walls of the nearby late church. Their decoration includes the Virgin and Child, St. Michael, St. Francis and the arms of FitzEustace. (Murphy 1891-95, 121-2; Fitzgerald 1901, 309; Tickell 1960, 391-2; Killanin and Duignan 1967, 318-9)
Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy
Date of upload: 18 February 2013
References
Killanin, M.M. and Duignan, M.V. 1962 Shell Guide to Ireland. London. Ebury Press.
FitzGerald, Lord W. 1899-1902 New Abbey of Kilcullen. Journal of the Kildare Archaeological Society 3, 300-317.
Tickell, E. F. 1960 The Eustace Family and their lands in County Kildare, Part 3. Journal of the Kildare Archaeological Society 13, 364-413.
Murphy, The Rev. D. 1891-5 The Eustaces of County Kildare. Journal of the Kildare Archaeological Society 1, 115-30.
Nearby in the register
- Religious house - Franciscan friarsunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Pit-burialunder 1 mi
- House - 17th centuryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.