What is recorded here

Graveslab in Gardens (kilkenny City By., St. Mary’s Par.) is a 13th/14th-century coffin-shaped graveslab made from fossiliferous limestone. It is decorated with an incised simple-floriated four-armed cross with fleur-de-lis terminals rising from a cross-shaft interrupted by a two-armed fleur-de-lis below the cross-head. The base is truncated. Latin Lombardic inscription on right and left of shaft: (right) HIC IACET ALLIUS I---- (left) PATERNOS Translation: Here lies Allius I ... Pray for us The slab was set into the floor of the Monuments Room in the 1960s and was moved to its present location in the S transept 2015.

At St Mary's parish church (KK019-026115-) in Kilkenny. A 13th/14th-century coffin-shaped graveslab made from fossiliferous limestone. It is decorated with an incised simple-floriated four-armed cross with fleur-de-lis terminals rising from a cross-shaft interrupted by a two-armed fleur-de-lis below the cross-head (L 0.87m; Wth 0.33m) (Drisceoil 2006, 34; Ó Drisceoil et al 2005, vol. 1, 12). Diagonal tooling evident. The base is truncated. Latin Lombardic inscription on right and left of shaft: (right) HIC IACET ALLIUS I---- (left) PATERNOS Translation: Here lies Allius I ... Pray for us The slab was set into the floor of the Monuments Room in the 1960s and was moved to its present location in the S transept 2015. Compiled by: Cóilín Ó Drisceoil Date of upload: 21 November 2022

13th/14th-century Christian graveslab; significant for its incised simple-floriated four-armed cross with fleur-de-lis terminals, reflecting medieval funerary art and ecclesiastical symbolism in Ireland.

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