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Tomb - chest tomb

Donaghmore (Fassadinin By.), County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Tomb - chest tomb, Donaghmore, County Kilkenny, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Donaghmore (Fassadinin By.)
County
Kilkenny
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.77930, -7.32762
SMR number
KK010-005003-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

In Donaghmore church (KK010-005001-). According to Carrigan (1905, vol. 2, 83) this was located in the SE corner of the chancel. It is described as a chest tomb with an inscription in latin in raised letters transcribed by Carrigan (ibid.) as, 'THEBALDVS. BVTLRVS. ET. VXOR. EIVS. MARGARETA. PATRICII. HOC. SEPVL.' and translated as, 'Theobald Butler and his wife Margaret Fitzpatrick [got] this tomb made'. The slab is dated to c. 1600 (Cockerham and Harris 2001, 186). The chest tomb currently occupying the SE corner of the chancel is a concrete construction. To the W of this modern tomb, against the S wall, there is a medieval slab (KK010-005006-)which appears to be portion of a mensa and may be part of the tomb to which Carrigan refers.

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of revised upload: 3 May 2019

References

Carrigan, Rev. W. 1905 (Reprint 1981) The history and antiquities of the diocese of Ossory, 4 vols. Kilkenny. Roberts Books and Wellbrook Press.

Cockerham. P. and Harris, L. 2001 Kilkenny funeral monuments 1500-1600: a statistical and analytical account. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 101C, 135-88.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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