What is recorded here
Kilmacow preserves a flat stone marking Edmonde Butler and Katrin Li, dated 1552. They are named without apology, not buried under legend. The chamber holds no scaffold of false certainty, only the two lives and the year they stopped running.
A floor slab commemorating Edmonde Butler and wife Katrin Li [Lee]. The slab is dated 1552. (Cockerham and Harris 2001, 181; pl. 3, 143).
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 28 May 2013
A 16th-century Christian gravestone; significant as a historical marker of burial practices and social record-keeping in early modern Ireland.
The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.
- What survives
- Recorded monument
Places near here
Church in KilmacowChurch · 1 yd
post boxpost box · 45 yd
TubbereenanHoly well · 120 yd
Enclosure in GrannyEnclosure · 1630 yd
CastleCastle, unclassified · 1.1 mi
Granny CastleCastle, tower house · 1.6 mi
Native Woodland Trust:Grace Dieu ReserveWood · 2.4 mi
Ballynaboley WoodForest · 2.5 mi
Mount Congreve GardensHeritage attraction · 4.7 mi
Waterford & Suir Valley RailwayHeritage attraction · 5.2 mi
Donnell's HillMountain / peak · 7.4 mi
Tower HillMountain / peak · 7.8 mi