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Tomb - chest tomb

Gardens (Kilkenny City By., St. Mary’s Par.), County Kilkenny, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Tomb - chest tomb, Gardens (Kilkenny City By., St. Mary’s Par.), 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
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
52.65175, -7.25206
SMR number
KK019-026319-

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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)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1911 · Sheet 14, 1911 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

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The National Monuments Service's description

At St Mary's parish church (KK019-026115-) in Kilkenny. A mensa for a deconstructed chest tomb or possibly an in-situ ledger slab, for Peter Archdeacon (d. 1586) and Helena Mandevil, in the NW corner of the 'Bryan vault' adjoining the E wall of the S transept of the church (Carrigan 1905, vol. 3, 97). The slab is set above a burial vault. The Bryan family 'vault' (in reality a mausoleum) probably modified part of the medieval Lady Chapel of St. Mary's in the 18th century. The Archdeacon tomb would have occupied the NW corner of the Lady Chapel, beside a (now blocked) entrance arch in the E wall of the S transept.
A rectangular slab (2.04m L x 0.92m Wth. x 0.13m T.) with eight-armed segmental cross with fleur-de-lis terminals and marginal Latin inscription in blackletter:
HIC. JACET. PETRUS. ARCHDEKIN. QUONDAM. BURGENS. VILLE. KILKENIAE.QUI. OBIIT. DIE. JANUARII. III. 1586. ET HELENA. MANDEVIL. UXOR. QUE. OBIIT [ ]’.
It translates as, Here lies Peter Archdekin once burgess of the town of Kilkenny who died 3rd January 1586 and Helena Mandevil his wife who died [ ].

Compiled by: Cóilín Ó Drisceoil

Date of upload: 4 January 2023

References

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

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

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