What is recorded here

An incised Latin plea for pity from Job sits in the Kilkenny church, stripped of every other marker but the desperation of the request. The slab may have covered a person who believed friendship could fail at the worst possible moment. That bare appeal still sounds like a living voice because it never stopped asking for mercy.

At St Mary's parish church (KK019-026115-) in Kilkenny. A chest tomb mensa slab or ledger found ex-situ overlying the N nave aisle wall of the church in test-excavations (12E314) by Claire Walsh (Walsh 2013, 33). A large rectangular slab of fossiliferous limestone, blank apart from an incised inscription in Latin blackletter at one end which reads: MISERUMINI·MEI·MISERIMINI·MEI·SALTIM·VOS·AMICI· MEI·JOB.19 It translates as, Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, o ye my friends. Job.19 The slab was moved to the nave in 2015, where it is presently on display. Compiled by: Cóilín Ó Drisceoil Date of upload: 4 January 2023

Chest tomb, medieval period. Its presence near the church suggests ecclesiastical or elite burial practices in the area.

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