What is recorded here

Lying in the choir of the cathedral (TS061-025003-) on the Rock of Cashel. The lower portion of a rectangular slab (L 1.57m; Wth 0.67m; T 0.05m) which has a crack across the slab face (Maher 1997, 73). The decoration consists of a cross-shaft with a single cross-band surmounting a stepped base (ibid.). A latin inscription, in Black Letter script, runs along the sides and base (ibid.). It has been transcribed by FitzGerald (1901-03, vol. 5, 437) as: HIC IACET JACOBUS BOITON CIVIS CIVITATIS CAS... / DNI MILLIO QUGINTESIO XIIII ET DAVID BOITON EIUS FILIUS / ME FIERI FECIT. Maher (1997, 73) translates this as, 'Here lies James Boyton citizen of Cashel....died 1513 [1514] and David Boyton his son who caused this monument to be erected'. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 25 January 2012

Graveslab in St. Patrick's Rock is a medieval Christian funerary monument, likely 12th to 14th century in date, and is significant as an example of early Irish stone carving associated with the ecclesiastical site of the Rock of Cashel.

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