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The National Monuments Service's description

Lying prostrate in the centre of the nave of St Mary’s church (KK026-010012-), Callan. The upper portion of a limestone slab (total L 1.76m; Wth 0.97m; min. T 0.11m). It is decorated with a banded cross with a seven-armed segmented cross-head with fleur-de-lys terminals, carved in relief. There is a three-barred knop below the cross-head and above the band. Beneath the truncated dexter band there is a heraldic shield bearing the Whyte coat of arms, described by Carrigan (1905, vol. 3, 301) as, ‘a chevron engrailed, between three mullets’. There is an inscription around the border (Wth 012m) in latin, in raised Black Letter script which has been transcribed by Carrigan (ibid. 300) as, ‘Hic jacet discretus vir Nicol….Whyt qu……..D M CCCCCC xli q cui aia oib Pr & ave dicetibus clx dies indulget concedut’ and translated as, ‘Here lies the discreet man Nicholas Whyt formerly…… 1541. An indulgence of 160 days is granted to all who pray for his soul’. The slab is broken vertically from the top, through the cross-head and sinister band.

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 13 November 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.