What is recorded here

Walter Wellesley died in 1539, and his tomb carried him through centuries of neglect before men reassembled it inside Kildare Cathedral in 1971. The bishop still raises a gloved hand in blessing beneath a canopy held by angels, while dragons, saints and grotesque trumpeters crowd the stone around him. Tucked under one corner is a chubby sheela with boomerang navel and bent knees, watching the dead and the living with the same indifferent clarity. What was broken in a graveyard wall became whole again in a cathedral, not through triumph but through patience.

Hogback: possibly tenth century, of granite. It is decorated in false relief ornament, with lozenge motifs and a Latin cross (dims. L 1.78m; Wd 0.48m; Th 0.39m). (Bradley et al. 1986, vol. 2, 102) Date of upload: 8 September 2016

Tenth-century hogback stone, likely Christian in origin, decorated with lozenge motifs and a Latin cross. It represents early medieval artistic and religious traditions in Ireland.

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