What is recorded here

Tomb is a tomb (effigial) in Coolfinn, County Waterford, Ireland. It stands beside the Romanesque parish church of Guilcagh at the edge of the River Suir floodplain, with the Kilbunny Stream flowing thirty to forty metres to the southeast. The church once held a sixteenth or seventeenth century bishop effigy, measuring roughly seventy-five by forty centimetres and bearing the inscription S. MONNIA EPISCOPS.

Situated at the edge of the floodplain of the River Suir with the W-E Kilbunny Stream 30-40m to the SE. The Romanesque parish church of Guilcagh (WA008-010001-) is within a small rectangular graveyard (WA008-010002-). A 16th or 17th century effigy of a bishop (dims. c. 0.75m x c. 0.4m) with the inscription S. MONNIA EPISCOPS was in the church and is now missing (pers. comm. M. Cahill, National Museum of Ireland). (Martin 1874-5, 248; Power 1895b, 247-50; 1922; P. and Ed. 1911) The attached image (DU018-243----_01.jpg) is from Power 1922. Compiled by: Michael Moore Updated by: Paul Walsh Revised date of upload: 18 April 2017

Effigial tomb, medieval period. Its association with the Romanesque parish church of Guilcagh suggests a possible ecclesiastical or elite burial context.

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