Graveslab in Ballyconra, County Kilkenny

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What is recorded here

In the NW corner of the chancel of Ballyconra church (KK009-013001-) in an area used as a mortuary chapel. A graveslab (L 1.77m; Wth 0.9m) with an inscription in English in Roman capitals commemorating Alexius Fitzgerald (d. 1694) and his wife Dorothy. The slab is dated 1694 and bears a coat of arms beneath the inscription (Cockerham 2009, 362). The arms are described by Carrigan (1905, vol. 2, 313) as, 'ermine, five annulets on a cross saltire; crest, a helmet; underneath is the insciption: HERE LAYETH THE BODY OF MR. ALEXIVS FITZGERALD WHO DYED THE 16TH OF MAY, 1694. REQVIESCAT IN PACE. AMEN. MRS. DOROTHEY FITZGERALD NEE LODGE'.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record KK009-013007

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