What is recorded here

Graveslab in Kildare holds cross slabs, grave slabs, decorated stones and three effigies from the 10th to the 17th centuries inside St. Brigid’s Cathedral. One small plaque marks Ussher Belwood, who died on 14 January 1691, preserving a name and date that ordinary forgetfulness would have swallowed. The chamber feels less like a museum than a crowded room where dead people kept waiting to be remembered.

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-). KD022-029054-: On the ground at the N side of the Cathedral. According to Bradley et al. (1986 vol. 3, 239), a small rectangular plaque (H 0.49m; Wth 0.61m; T 0.09m) has an inscription in Roman lettering: ‘HERE LYETY THE/ BODY OF/ USSHER BELWOOD HE DE-ART/ ED THIS 14 DAY OF/ JANVARY 1691’. (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 Kildare.

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