Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Tomb - chest tomb
Tullaroan, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tullaroan
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.65799, -7.43360
- SMR number
- KK018-032006-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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 the SW angle of the Grace chapel in Tullaroan church (KK018-032001-). The lid (L 2.07m; Wth 1.01m; T 0.13m) of a chest tomb commemorating Richard Grace, son of Robert of Adamstown, and wife Honora Shortall, dated c. 1600 (Cockerham and Harris 2001, 183). The lid currently rests on a reconstructed chest. The cross is decorated with a seven-armed interlace cross with fleur-de-lys terminals and the shaft rises from a simple triangular base. The inscription, in latin, in raised Roman capitals is visible along the sinister border (Wth 0.12m), the base and continues up the cross shaft (Wth 0.08m). Carrigan (1905, vol. 3, 494) gives the inscription as: RICARDVS GRACE ROB'TI DE ADAMSTOWNE ET ONORA SARTEL EIVS VXOR ME FIERE F[ECRERVNT], and the translation as, 'Richard Grace fitz Robert, of Adamstown, and Onner Shortall, his wife, got me made'.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of revised upload: 28 February 2017
References
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.
Carrigan, Rev. W. 1905 (Reprint 1981) The history and antiquities of the diocese of Ossory, 4 vols. Kilkenny. Roberts Books and Wellbrook Press.
Nearby in the register
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.