What is recorded here

Rebuilt into the east wall of St Mary's chancel, a broken chest tomb from the sixteenth century waited centuries for discovery. Its fossiliferous limestone still bears an eight-arm cross with fleur-de-lis terminals, marking a forgotten person beneath Kilkenny soil. The church itself changed around it, yet the tomb remained embedded, holding its shape through later building and forgetting.

At St Mary's parish church (KK019-026115-) in Kilkenny, found rebuilt into mid-18th century E wall of the current chancel during the 2015 excavation (Ó Drisceoil 2019, unpublished). A fragment of a 16th-century chest tomb mensa or ledger, composed of fossiliferous limestone, decorated with an eight-arm cross-head with fleur-de-lis terminals. Compiled by: Cóilín Ó Drisceoil Date of upload: 10 January 2023

Chest tomb, 16th century. Significance lies in its reuse in the 18th century and its survival as a fragment, offering insight into medieval funerary practices and later ecclesiastical modifications in Kilkenny.

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