Graveslab

The National Monuments Service's description

In St. Mary's graveyard (TS083-019020-) there is an upright limestone graveslab (L 2.14m; Wth 1.08m; T 0.15m with under cut chamfered edge 0.15m) against the outer wall of the N aisle of the chancel (7.13m from the NW angle of the chancel). It is decorated with a fleur-de-lys seven-arm cross, on either side of the cross shaft there are the coat of arms, the Baron arms on a shield with two lions passant and the White arms on a simple shield with a chevron (Holland 1992, 200). The latin inscription, now barely legible, is in black letter script around the border and has been transcribed as follows: HIC JACET GALFRIDUS BARRON QUI OBIIT 22 MARTII A.DNI 1601 ET BELLINA WHITE UXOR EJUS QUAE HUNC TUMULUM FIERI FECERIT A.DNI 1605 ET OBIIT A.DNI 1610 QUORUM AIABUS PROPITIETUR DEUS (Vigors 1891, vol. 1, 240). It translates as, 'Here lies Geoffry Barron who died 22 March A.D 1601 and Bellina (Beale) White his wife who had this tomb erected A.D. 1605 and who died 1610 on whose souls may God have mercy' (Art, Craft and Design Class 1996, 24).

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of revised upload: 02 February 2012

References

Art, Craft and Design Class 1996 Old St Marys Memories and Images. Central Technical Institute, Clonmel.

Vigors, P. D. 1888-91 County Tipperary: parish of Clonmel. Jour. of the Assoc. for the Preservation of the Memorials of the Dead, vol. 1, 239-43.