What is recorded here

Graveslab in Tralee marks the original location of a 17th century limestone slab now set into a wall at the southeast side of the Dominican church garden. It records David Roche, esquire and councillor at law, who died in 1686, and his daughter Mary, who died in 1685. The slab may have carried a cross, year and date on its opposite face, but that much remains uncertain. What is clear is that two lives were remembered together on stone, then the stone moved within the same Dominican ground.

This record is for the original location of a 17th century graveslab which is in the garden of the modern Dominican church in Tralee (see present location KE029-119021-). It is presumably from the medieval Dominican friary (KE029-236001-) 17th century graveslab described in the Urban Survey of Kerry as follows; 'Set into a wall at the SE side of the garden is a fragmented limestone slab with an incised Roman lettered inscription HERE LYETH THE BODY/ OF DAVID ROCHE ESQ Co NCELLER ATT LAW WHO DECEASED THE 13 DAY Of/ avgvst ANNO DOMINi/ 1686 anD THIE BODY Of his/ DAVGHTER MARY dec/ easeD IN THE year 1685 The slab is supposed to have a cross, year and date on the opposite face. Dims: H. 1.18m x W. 60cm Mems Dead 3 (1895-7), 287; Mems Dead 6 (1904-8), 87-8; Denny 1907-9, 362-3; Hayward 1976, 263)' (Bradley et. al. 1987, 112).

Medieval Christian graveslab, 17th century; significant as a funerary monument associated with the Dominican friary in Tralee, reflecting the religious and architectural heritage of the period.

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