Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Tomb - chest tomb
Kilmallock, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilmallock
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.40102, -8.57466
- SMR number
- LI047-022013-
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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
17th century Fitzgerald/Bourke tomb at Kilmallock described in the Urban Survey of County Limerick as following (Bradley et. al. 1989, 160-1); 'Large tomb chest and mensa with ornamented side panels standing against the east wall of the north aisle. The mensa has a small cadaver and a figure of Death while the side panels are decorated with coats of arms of the FitzGeralds and FitzHaryes and an inscription: THOMAS FITZ/ GERALD/ ESQVIER/ DIED 1630/ MS IOANE FITZGEA/ RALD ALS BOV/ RKE RELICT/ BV/ ILT THIS MONVMENT/ COMES VIRTVTIS INVIDIA
Roe 1969, 16-7'.
Compiled by: Caimin O’Brien
Date of upload: 27 September 2019
References
Bradley, J., Halpin, A., and King, H.A. 1989 Urban archaeological survey - county Limerick (3 vols.). Unpublished report commissioned by the Office of Public Works, Dublin.
Roe, H.M. 1969 Cadaver effigial monuments in Ireland. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 99, 1-19.
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