Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Wall monument
Dysart, County Kilkenny, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dysart
- County
- Kilkenny
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.50195, -7.12200
- SMR number
- KK032-004009-
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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
In the chancel at Dysart church (KK032-004001-). A black marble wall monument comprising a chest tomb with an elaborate mural entablature including a coat of arms and an inscription in Latin commemorating Robert Frayne and his wife Eleonora FitzGerald. The monument is dated 1643. (Carrigan 1905, vol. 4, 186; Cockerham 2009, 359)
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 30 July 2013
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.
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.