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
- 52.65185, -7.25218
- SMR number
- KK019-026353-
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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, currently in the N transept but it was in S transept when recorded by Carrigan (1905, vol. 3, 94).
A rectangular mural plaque (L 1.1m; Wth 0.52m), of fossiliferous limestone, commemorating John Nash (d. 1643) and Elenor Rothe (d. 1617) (Carrigan 1905, vol. 3, 94; Cockerham 2009, 359). It consists of a panel defined by raised edges. The lowest line of the inscription is now covered over. The Latin inscription in false relief Roman capitals reads:
JOANNES NASSHIVS HVMANAE FRA
GILITATIS CONSCIVS, SIBI, CHARISSIMAE
VXORI ELEONORAE ROTHAE ET LIBERIS,
ADHVC VTVENS POSVIT A". X. l6l7. QVIBVS
VT AETERNAM REQVIEM PRECERIS TV,
FINIS MEMOB. ENIXE ROGAT. OBIIT HON
ESTVS HIC ET CORDATVS CIVIS 31 DIE
MAII MENSIS, SALVTIS HVMANAE Ao 1643
It was moved to it current location in the N transept, N face of the ‘Monuments Room’ wall, in c. 1960.
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.
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