What is recorded here
In Rathpatrick church (KK044-014001-). The upper slab of a chest tomb with a Latin inscription in Black Letter commemorating Nicholas FitzThomas FitzGerald of Gurtyn (d. 1617) and his wife Helen Bourke. The slab is dated c. 1609. (Carrigan 1905, vol. 4, 200-201; Cockerham 2009, 353)
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 2 July 2013
A 17th-century chest tomb slab with Latin inscription; significant as a memorial to Nicholas FitzThomas FitzGerald and his wife, reflecting early modern funerary practices in Ireland.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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