What is recorded here

Graveslab in Gardens (kilkenny City By., St. Mary’s Par.) stands at St Mary's parish church in Kilkenny, where the upper half of a 13th or 14th-century limestone slab was reused as a quoinstone in the vestry corner. The stone bears a floriated cross rising from an orb, incised circles in the spandrels, and the initials R R I B beneath the cross-head. It is not a display monument but a building fragment, carrying a dead person’s marker into the living structure of the church.

At St Mary's parish church (KK019-026115-) in Kilkenny. A 13th/14th-century inscribed graveslab (dims. 0.55m x 0.52m) made from fossiliferous limestone (Bradley 1980, 10, no. 25). The upper half of a graveslab reused as a quoinstone in the NE corner of the vestry St. Mary’s Church. The slab bears an incised simple-floriated cross rising from an orb above the cross-shaft. The cross-head spandrels are occupied by incised circles. The right and left of the cross-head bears the original chamfer and the top and base is truncated. An incised inscription in Roman capital occupies the right below the cross-head. It reads: R R I B. Compiled by: Cóilín Ó Drisceoil Date of upload: 21 November 2022

Medieval Christian graveslab, 13th/14th century. Significant as an example of early Irish funerary art and reuse practices in ecclesiastical contexts.

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