What is recorded here

Graveslab in Gardens (kilkenny City By., St. Mary’s Par.) preserves a broken limestone edge where someone once lay beneath St Francis' Abbey. The surviving fragment carries a Lombardic plea for mercy and a faint fleur-de-lis, turning raw stone into a chamber for compassion. It still stands in the gardens because even incomplete death deserves witness, and the absence of a name does not erase the shape of the life that filled it.

In St Francis' Abbey (KK019-026101-). A portion of one side of a limestone graveslab (L 0.34m; Wth 0.205m; D 0.14m), which has a raised border and chamfer side. It bears an incised inscription in Lombardic script. The inscription is transcribed and translated by Bradley (1980, 13, no. 42) as, ‘…RE: GIT: …[M]ERCI’, ‘(Here lies)... re. (God have) mercy (on his/her soul)’. There is possible incised decoration immediately above the ‘GIT’ which may be part of a fleur-de-lis. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Medieval Christian graveslab, 12th–13th century. Its Lombardic script inscription is significant for epigraphic and liturgical studies in medieval Ireland.

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