Tomb - effigial

The National Monuments Service's description

Hunt (1974, vol. 1, 221) lists an effigy, possibly that of a woman, from Carrickbeg which was illustrated by Austin Cooper (Price 1942, 20, plate 31; Harbison 2000, 56-7) in 1781. According to the caption on Cooper's drawing, the effigy is from 'An Old Tomb in the Abbey of Carrick-beg' (Price 1942, 20, plate 31; Harbison 2000, 56-7; NLI, Coo 2122 TX(1) 22). This abbey is the Franciscan friary (TS083-004004-), the surviving remains of which are incorporated into the RC church of St Molleran which was built in 1827. Recently exposed during graveyard cleanup scheme the top of the slab is visible protruding above the surface of the graveyard, against the inner face of the graveyard wall.

See attached drawing of effigial slab courtesy of the National Library of Ireland, and photograph of recently found slab kindly provided by Kay Wall

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Revised by: Caimin O'Brien

Date of revised upload: 26 August 2020

References

NLI, Coo 2122 TX (1) 22, National Library of Ireland, An Old Tomb in the Abbey of Carrick-beg, Co.y Waterford
A:C: delint. 17th June 1781; Print. 19th. July. Drawing by Austin Copper dated June 17th, 1781, from Antiquities of Abbeys, Castles & c. in Ireland, Vol. 1, Dublin.

Harbison, P. 2000 Cooper's Ireland: drawings and notes from an eighteenth-century gentleman. Dublin. O'Brien Press Ltd.

Hunt, J. 1974 Irish medieval figure sculpture 1200-1600, 2 vols. Dublin. Irish University Press.

Price, L. (ed.) 1942 An eighteenth-century antiquary: the sketches, notes and Diaries of Austin Cooper, 1759-1880. Dublin.