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
- 52.65181, -7.25230
- SMR number
- KK019-026322-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
At St Mary's parish church (KK019-026115-) in Kilkenny. A chest tomb mensa slab or ledger found ex-situ overlying the N nave aisle wall of the church in test-excavations (12E314) by Claire Walsh (Walsh 2013, 33). A large rectangular slab of fossiliferous limestone, blank apart from an incised inscription in Latin blackletter at one end which reads:
MISERUMINI·MEI·MISERIMINI·MEI·SALTIM·VOS·AMICI· MEI·JOB.19
It translates as, Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, o ye my friends. Job.19
The slab was moved to the nave in 2015, where it is presently on display.
Compiled by: Cóilín Ó Drisceoil
Date of upload: 4 January 2023
Nearby in the register
- Fontunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Tomb - chest tombunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.