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The National Monuments Service's description

At St Mary's parish church (KK019-026115-) in Kilkenny. A rectangular slab (L 1.9m; Wth 0.65m), composed of fossiliferous limestone, either the mensa of a chest tomb or a ledger for -? Dunning (d. 1625) and Margaret Dunning (Carrigan 1905, vol. 3, 95; Cockerham 2009, 356). It is decorated with an eight-armed cross with fleur-de-lis terminals on a shaft that rises from a stepped base. The shaft is flanked by streamers. A marginal Latin black letter and Roman lettering inscription is now largely illegible but was originally recorded by Carrigan (1905, vol. 3, 93) as:
[Roman lettering] AVGVSTVS 1625, [black letter] ET MARGARETA DUNGIN UXOR EIUS Q. OBIIT [ ] DIE MENSIS [ ]
which translates as, '... August 1625, and his wife Margaret Dungin who died [ ] day the month of [ ]'.
According to Carrigan (ibid.) the slab was on the floor on the N side of the chancel when recorded by him around 1900. It was moved from here to the 'Monuments Room' in the N transept c. 1960 and to its current location in the S transept in 2015.

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.