Stone sculpture (present location)

The National Monuments Service's description

From King (1987, 302) Tomb-chest? c. 1690. Four fragments of a table tomb lie scattered around the older part of staholmock graveyard and a fifth is mounted on the north wall of the modern cemetery. This latter shows a male figure, naked except for a loin cloth, in the ‘orans’ position (Roe 1970, 213; Ní Shúilliobháin 1970, 222). Three other pieces are the remains of a panel with an elaborated achievement of arms, (Fleming impaling ?Cross or Chetwode), and the remaining piece is a support for a table tomb. The two decorated pieces probably formed the end panels of the tomb. Dimensions: H 0.62m; Wth 0.66m.

Compiled by: Michael Moore

Date of upload; 22 May, 2014
Amended: 7 August, 2014

References

Roe, H. 1970 The orans in Irish Christian art. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 100, 213-21.

King, H.A. 1987 Seventeenth-century effigial sculpture in the north Meath area. In E. Rynne (ed.), Figures from the past: studies on figurative art in Christian Ireland in honour of Helen M. Roe, 283-307. Dun Laoghaire. Glendale Press.

Ní Shúilliobháin, N 1970 Miscellanea: Orant at Staholmock, Co. Meath. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, 100, 222.