What is recorded here

Graveslab in Gardens (kilkenny City By., St. Mary’s Par.) is a fossiliferous limestone mensa for Peter Stroude and Margaret, dated 1615, now half-swallowed by a pulpit and a broken edge. It is not a display piece but a wound in the church floor, marking the point where a life stopped being visible. What is left reads like a name half-remembered, while what is lost has been made into shape by the pulpit’s shadow.

At St Mary's parish church (KK019-026115-) in Kilkenny. A mensa, composed of fossiliferous limestone, for a chest tomb or a ledger commemorating Peter Stroude and Margaret ? (d. 1615). The tomb was recorded by Carrigan as being partially ‘covered by pulpit’, which at the time was at the NE corner of the crossing (Canon W. Carrigan notebooks, St Kieran’s College Archive, Kilkenny, notebook 19). The marginal inscription in Latin black letter reads: HIC JACET PETRUS STROUDE QUONDAM BUGENSIS CIVITATIS KILKENNIE QUI OBIT [ ] DIE [ ] ET MARGARETA [COVERED BY PULPIT] QUI OBIT [ EPULCHE AWAY] 1615 It translates as, Here lies Peter Stroude burgess of the city of Kilkenny who died [ ] day [ ] and Margaret … who died … 1615. The left edge has been broken rendering the remaining inscription indecipherable. Compiled by: Cóilín Ó Drisceoil Date of upload: 4 January 2023

A 17th-century Christian chest tomb or ledger stone; significant as a funerary monument from the early modern period associated with the Stroude family in Kilkenny.

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