Wall monument

The National Monuments Service's description

At St Mary's parish church (KK019-026115-) in Kilkenny. A mural plaque commemorating Patrick Shee and Maria Pembroke (d. 1646), built into the cross wall constructed in 1804 connecting the SW side of the church with the graveyard wall (Carrigan 1905, vol. 3, 101; Cockerham 2009, 360).
A rectangular panel (L 0.92m; Wth 0.74m), built of fossiliferous limestone, showing a heraldic shield of Shee impaling Pembroke (Crotty 1978, 310-11). The shield has a convex surface. The motto VINCIT VERITAS (Truth Conquers) appears on a scroll beneath the shield. The initials P.S. and M.P. are in false-relief on either side of the scroll. At the base of the panel is an incised inscription in Roman running hand which is now illegible but was transcribed by Carrigan (ibid.) as follows:
[DOM]
Patricius Shee, Gasparis filius, generalis vice-comitis munere in civitate Kilkeniensi bis laudabiliter
perfunctus, vir omnibus charus, numerosae & optimae prolis’ providus parens et pius provisor,
mortalitatis memor sibi, charissimae uxori Mariae Pembrocke, Jacobo Shee heredi, liberis et posteris
posuit. Obiit ille 28 Martii 1646 & hie depositus ut sibi bene, Christiane, precaris, viator, rogat.

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.