What is recorded here

One fragment holds an outstretched hand clutching a cross, while the other preserves the forgotten body that once owned it. Both were cut into chamfered blocks and buried inside a window frame at St Mary's, Kilkenny, turning a dead man's tomb into a living wall. The church still stands, but the person who prayed beneath that hand has disappeared into time.

At St Mary's parish church (KK019-026115-) in Kilkenny. Two fragments (L 0.27m x Wth 0.4m; L 0.4m x Wth 0.38m) of a 13th/14th-century effigy, made from fossiliferous limestone. Reused in the external elevation of a lancet window jamb in the E wall of the S transept of the church. Both fragments have been re-shaped into chamfered blocks to match the existing 13th-century chamfered jambs of the lancet window. The stones are decorated with an incised design of an arm that terminates in an extended hand with a cross. The cross has rounded termini and a boss. Compiled by: Cóilín Ó Drisceoil Date of upload: 21 November 2022

Medieval effigial tomb fragment, 13th/14th century. Significant as a rare surviving example of early medieval funerary sculpture in Kilkenny, reused in later architectural contexts.

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