Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Wall monument
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
- 52.65179, -7.25203
- SMR number
- KK019-026336-
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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 rectangular mural plaque, composed of fossiliferous limestone, dated to 1646 dedicated to William Shee and Maria Crispe. It is decorated with cartouche and bears an inscription. Carrigan (1905, vol. 3, 96) recorded it as being in the nave of the church c. 1900. The heraldic shield depicts the Shee coat of arms impaling those of Crispe, with the motto 'VINCIT VERITAS' in false relief. Below the shield is an incised inscription in running hand transcribed by Carrigan (ibid.) as:
D.O.M.
Gulielmus Shee, Gasparis filius, generosus, vir
Christiana pietate, probitate, prudentia, animi fortitudine
conspicuus, publici boni studiosus, optimae
prolis providus institutor, omnibus charus et utilis,
aeternam et beatam a morte vitam sperans, sibi charissimae
uxori Mariae Crispe, liberis ac posteris posuit 1646.
Tu, aeternam eis requiem, viator, precare.
The slab was moved from the former Monuments Room in the N transept, where it had been moved in the 1960s, to its current location at the S wall of the chancel in 2015.
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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