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This is the effigy of a knight (dims 2.17m x 0.84 at bottom to 0.86m at top (W); H 9cm) against the N wall of the chancel. The inscription is in gothic lettering but only the legs of the knight and the name Cusack are extant. (FitzGerald 1911, 409, No. VII; Moore 1970, 26, No. 5; Hunt 1974, 208, No. 192)
It is described by FitzGerald as: This is a slab bearing in low relief, the effigy of a knight, now so weather-worn that the lower portion alone shows the device. An ornamental border runs down the outer edge of the two longer sides, and between it and the knight’s effigy is an inscription now indecipherable except for the words: …CUSAK QONDA D[NI DE KILLEEN] DE / STIRPE ET MACIONE….
If a guess might be hazarded, this effigy possibly represents Sir Lucas Cusack, Knt. Lord of Killeen, whose daughter and heiress Joan married Sir Christopher Plunkett in 1401.
Date of upload: 18 March, 2015
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