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Tomb - chest tomb

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

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Tomb - chest tomb, 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
52.65171, -7.25246
SMR number
KK019-026344-

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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. A side panel of the early 17th-century chest tomb of William Murphy (d. 1622) and Joanna Dunphy (Carrigan 1905, Vol. 3, 94; Cockerham 2009, 356). Before it was moved to its present location in 2015 at W end of nave, it was set into the W wall of the S transept and only partially visible (Carrigan 1905, Vol. 3, 94).
Comprises the corner panel (0.6m L x 0.4m Wth x 0.34m T) of a chest tomb built of fossiliferous limestone. It is decorated on two sides. The side-panel shows the inscription and the end-panel a cartouche. Both are framed by a raised bevelled border. The side-panel is inscribed in false relief Latin blackletter:
INSIGNIA. WILLIELMI. MURPHY. CIVIS KILKENIAE ET UXORU[M] EIUS
JOHANNAE DONFY ET MARGARETAE MURPHY. LEX. LUX. CRUX. DUX.
Translation: Distinguished. William Murphy of the city of Kilkenny and his wife Joanna Dunphy and Margaret Murphy.
The end-panel bears the coats of arms of Murphy and Dunphy which is flanked on the right by the initials W (at top) and J (at base) and on the left by the initials M (top), M (middle) and D (base) signifying William Murphy, Margaret Murphy and Joanna Dunphy.

Compiled by: Cóilín Ó Drisceoil

Date of upload: 9 January 2023

References

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.

Carrigan, Rev. W. 1905 (Reprint 1981) The history and antiquities of the diocese of Ossory, 4 vols. Kilkenny. Roberts Books and Wellbrook Press.

Nearby in the register

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

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