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Wall monument

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

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Wall monument, 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
52.65174, -7.25200
SMR number
KK019-026328-

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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. An armorial plaque probably originally part of a chest tomb or possibly a stand alone mural plaque, dedicated to John Bryan c. 1607 set into the S wall of the 'Bryan vault' adjoining the E wall of the S transept of the church (Carrigan 1905, vol. 3, 96-7; Cockerham 2009, 353). 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 slab, composed of fossiliferous limestone, consists of a shield charged with the arms of Bryan of Jenkinstown, impaling those of Walsh: crest, a swan bearing in its mouth a label with the words, VITA. VAPOR: beneath the shield is the motto, VIVANT IN AETERNVM. Underneath all may be read in false relief Latin black letter: INSIGNIA JOHANIS BRYN AL’ BRYAN ET MARGARETAE and the following inscription:
HIC + JACET + JOHANES + BRYN + ALg + BRYAN + GENEROSUS +
FILIUS + LODAVICI + QUI + OBIIT + 29 + AUGUSTI + A + D + 1607 +
ET + MARGARETA + WALSHE + UXOR + EIg + QE + OBIIT + XIII +
DIE + AUGUSTI + 1610.’.

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.

Cockerham, P. 2009 My body to be buried in my owne monument: the social and religious context of Co. Kilkenny funeral monuments, 1600-1700. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 109C, 239-365.

Nearby in the register

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

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