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Roland FitzEustace and Margaret Jenico sleep elsewhere, yet their stone shadows still occupy the tower of St Audeon's. The cenotaph captures them in permanent rest, a knight in armour beside his lady in a horned headress, while their true bodies lie at New Abbey. Stone can hold the shape of love when flesh has gone, turning an empty chamber into a place where the dead still sit together.

The tower of St Audeon's medieval parish church (DU018-020075-) contains the Portlester monument originally in the chancel aisle chapel, comprising a large granite slab which depicts two recumbent figures a knight in armour and his lady; these are Roland FitzEustace, Lord Portlester (ob.1496) and his wife Margaret Jenico. She is depicted wearing a V-necked gown and horned headress. The monument is a cenotaph. Margaret Jenico and Roland FitzEustace were buried at New Abbey, Kilcullen, Kildare. Compiled by: Geraldine Stout Date of upload: 16 August 2012

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