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
- 52.65166, -7.25246
- SMR number
- KK019-026329-
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).
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The National Monuments Service's description
At St Mary's parish church (KK019-026115-) in Kilkenny. A panel, probably from a chest tomb, commemorating John Roth, built into the cross wall constructed in 1804 connecting the SW side of the church with the graveyard wall. A rectangular panel (L 0.8m; Wth 0.6m) bearing a Rothe armorial shield with the Waring, Chamberlain and Archer coats-of-arms (Crotty 1978, 306-7). The motto VIRTUTE NON VI (by virtue, not force) is in Latin black letter false relief below the shield. An incised, probably secondary, inscription in English Roman lettering at the base reads: Here lies ye body of John Roth … .
Compiled by: Cóilín Ó Drisceoil
Date of upload: 4 January 2023
Nearby in the register
- Wall monumentunder 1 mi
- Wall monumentunder 1 mi
- Wall monumentunder 1 mi
- Armorial plaqueunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.