What is recorded here

Seven centuries of death crowded into one cathedral wall, where broken cross slabs and three effigies from the 10th to 17th centuries still watch the living. Henry Lyndall joined them in 1688, his name cut into a small limestone fragment outside the chancel. The graveyard did not disappear; it moved into Kildare’s oldest church and kept pretending ordinary stone could contain so much time.

A large collection of cross slabs, grave slabs, decorated stones and three effigies (See KD022-029023- and KD022-029027- to KD022-029057-), dating from the 10th to the 17th centuries have been placed in St. Brigid’s Cathedral (KD022-029005-). KD022-029053-: Outside the E gable wall of the chancel. According to Bradley et al. (1986 vol. 3, 239), a small rectangular limestone piece (H 0.39m; Wth 0.48m; T 0.10m), in two fragments, has an inscription in Roman lettering: ‘HERE LYETY ye BODY OF HEN/RY LYNDALL deCEASED ye 21 OF APRIL 1688’. (Fitzgerald 1904-6b) Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 7 February 2012

Medieval Christian grave slab; dates from the 10th to 17th centuries. Significant as part of a collection associated with St. Brigid’s Cathedral, reflecting the long-standing religious and funerary traditions in the Kildare region.

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