Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Tomb - effigial
Gardens (kilkenny City By., St. Mary’s Par.), County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Gardens (kilkenny City By., St. Mary’s Par.)
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.65183, -7.25239
- SMR number
- KK019-026285-
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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
At St Mary's parish church (KK019-026115-) in Kilkenny. An effigy of a male dating from the second quarter of the 14th century (L 1.98m; Wth 0.53m; T 0.38m) made from fossiliferous limestone. Hunt describes it as, ‘a coffin-shaped slab with the figure of a man in a long gown to the ankles. He wears a shoulder-cape, the hood thrown back behind his head with its liripipe hanging down its right side almost to the elbow. The gown has short sleeves to the elbows with pendant lappets to mid-thigh. His hands are clasped together in prayer. His hair hangs in decorative locks curling below the ears and he has a beard. The head rests on a double cushion and his feet on a foliate socle. The date is second quarter of the fourteenth century’ (Hunt 1974, vol. 1, 197).
Compiled by: Cóilín Ó Drisceoil
Date of upload: 21 November 2022
References
Hunt, J. 1974 Irish medieval figure sculpture 1200-1600, 2 vols. Dublin. Irish University Press.
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