What is recorded here

Break through the floor of St. David's Church and Joshua Carpenter's sandstone slab appears in two pieces, his arms and Roman capitals still sharp beneath centuries of boot traffic. A carpenter from 1665 became a shadow in Naas East, measured at two metres and thirteen centimetres across nearly a metre, large enough for a person to lie beside but never recorded as having been buried there. The church aisle turns into a room where measurement and memory collide, his name preserved in stone while the man remains absent.

According to Bradley et al. (1986 vol. 4, 364-5), a rectangular sandstone slab, in two pieces (dims. L 2.1m; Wth 0.98m), set into the floor of the central aisle of St. David's Church (KD019-030020-) is decorated in low, false relief with a marginal inscription in Roman capitals and an achievement of arms. It commemorates Joshua Carpenter, 1665. Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 10 June 2011

A decorated Early Christian gravestone; significant as an example of early medieval funerary art in Ireland.

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