What is recorded here

Yes. Chest tomb fragment at St Mary's parish church, Kilkenny: fossiliferous limestone, built into an 1804 cross-wall, its Latin blackletter still asking passers-by to pray for a former burgess buried there.

At St Mary's parish church (KK019-026115-) in Kilkenny. A fragment of a roughly rectangular chest tomb mensa or ledger (dims. 0.74m x 0.2m), of fossiliferous limestone, built into the base of a cross-wall constructed in 1804 connecting the SW side of the church with the graveyard wall (Bradley 1980, 10, no. 23). The inscription in raised relief Latin blackletter reads: . YE. QUONDAM. BURGENNS. VILL . .PRECORNT . TUA. IETABILI. MIA & GRA. . SUT. ET. SEPELIENTUR. IN. ISTO. LOCO. AME[N] It translates as, … ye sometime burgess of the town (of Kilkenny) say a prayer you (who pass) and was buried in this place. Amen. Compiled by: Cóilín Ó Drisceoil Date of upload: 4 January 2023

Chest tomb, medieval period. Its reuse of stone in a later church structure indicates common medieval funerary and architectural practices in the region.

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