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Wall monument

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

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Wall monument, 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
52.65183, -7.25215
SMR number
KK019-026365-

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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, originally on the S chancel wall, near the crossing. A white marble wall monument (H 3.41m; Wth 1.92m) for Col. Robert Maude (d. 1684) and Frances Wandesford, Anthony Maude, Ann Maude (d. 1703) (Potterton 1975, 83). It is built in the Baroque-style, representing a richly ornamented stylised neo-Classical portico over an elaborate apron. At the bottom left is inscribed ‘Stanton of Harthnale London’, the stonemason. The inscription reads:
This monument erected/
To memory/
Of the several following persons/
(of the family of Maude)/
who are intered near this place/
Viz/
Coll Robert Maude/
formerly of Rippon, Yorkshire,/
late of Dundrum, in the County of Tipperary/
who died Ano Dm 1684/
Frances his wife/
(of the name and House of Wandesford)/
Anthony their only son/
and Anne youngest daughter./
This Lady/
who lived unmarried/
and dy’d in the 58th year of Her Age/
Ano Dm 1703/
By her last Will did appoint her Executors/
To distinguish and adorn/
the Burying place of her family.

The monument was moved to the S wall of the former 'Monuments Room' in the N transept. It was rebuilt in its present location on the S side of the S transept in 2015.

Compiled by: Cóilín Ó Drisceoil

Date of upload: 10 January 2023

References

Potterton, H. 1975 Irish church monuments 1570-1880. Belfast. Ulster Architectural Heritage Society.

Nearby in the register

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

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