Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Tomb - chest tomb
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
- 52.65175, -7.25206
- SMR number
- KK019-026319-
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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. 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.
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