Wall monument

The National Monuments Service's description

At St Mary's parish church (KK019-026115-) in Kilkenny. A semi-circular mural plaque (L 1.28m; Wth 0.83m), composed of fossiliferous limestone. Probably originally part of a composite Renaissance mural monument, commemorating John Archer (d. 1617) and Honor Shee (d. 1619), built into the cross wall constructed 1804 connecting the SW side of the church with the graveyard wall (Carrigan 1905, Vol. 3, 101; Cockerham 2009, 354).
It is inscribed in false relief Roman capitals, now largely illegible but was transcribed by Carrigan (1905, Vol. 3, 101) as:
PATRICIAE ET ANTIQVAE PROSAPIAE JOANI ARCHER PRAETORIO CIVI DIGNISSIMO PACIS BELLIQVE
ARTIB[V]S DE PATRIA OPTIME MERITO ET VXORI HONORIAE SHETHEAE MATRONAE LECTISSIMAE
MAERENTE[S] FILII PIGNVS HOC AMORIS POSVERVNT AO. DI. I617. OBIIT AVTE[M] JOANES 1 OCTOBRIS
HVI[V]S. ANNI, ET HONORIA 2 SUPERIORIS AN[N]I. BENE ILLIS VT PRECERE TANTV[M] ROGAT.

Compiled by: Cóilín Ó Drisceoil

Date of upload: 9 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.