Discover Alone ← Back to nearby map

← Back to the nearby map

Graveslab in Tullaroan

Graveslab
View what I want to do
No photo yet

Add your own picture and explain the route, parking, gates, paths or landmarks that help people find it.

Earn 5 points after the picture is checked and accepted.

Add your photo and local directionsShare what you found

What is recorded here

Formerly located at Tullaroan church (KK018-032001-), Co. Kilkenny, currently unlocated. A floor slab commemorating James Grace, son of Baron Grace, and wife Ellis. This unusual tapering 16th-century graveslab was divided into three panels, the uppermost depicting a large Calvary with a crown of thorns and symbols of the Passion on either side, the centre panel has a depiction of the Virgin and Child in raised relief and the lower panel has a shield with a lion rampant. There is a margin inscription which begins in the upper dexter corner and runs around the entire slab, ending with the date 1543. (see Cockerham and Harris 2001, 154, 156-7, 183, Pl. 10 for description and illustration from Grace 1823) Carrigan (1905, vol. 3, 495) mentions that this slab is described in the Memoir of the Family of Grace published in 1818, but could not now be found and he gives the inscription as, 'Hic jacent corpora iacobi qras quondam de Corstown, baronis Gras filii, et Ellis uxoris ejus, qui quidem Jacobus obit ultimo die Augusti ano. dni. mcccccxlii, et dicta Ellis obiit tricesimo die decb'is a. di mccccxliii'. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of revised upload: 28 February 2017

The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.