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The National Monuments Service's description

In the chancel of the Augustinian friary (KK026-010016-) in Callan, lying face down near the E gable. A central portion of a limestone slab (L 1.05m; Wth at top 0.78m; Wth towards base Wth 0.73m; T 0.14m) which appears to be tapering slightly towards the base. The sides of the slab are straight and roughly dressed. This is likely to be the described by Carrigan (1905, vol. 3, 313) as, 'a fragment of a floor-slab, with raised cross. The inscription, which is raised Old English and perfectly legible, runs round the edge, beginning in the middle, at the right side of the cross, and being continued on the top, now missing, and thence down the left side. What remains of now is: Hic i.............[mcccc]lxxxxix & frater Ricard O'Knavy. A small fragment of this same tomb, with the words "cu ani," may be seen at the present Augustinian Convent. Translation:- Here lie .........1499, and Brother Richard O'Knavyn..... On whose soul........... . The Irish name O'Knavyn, is now sometimes anglicised Bowen, cnamh [cnámh] being the Irish for a bone'.

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 21 October 2019

References

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