What is recorded here

It is possible the panels marked a deceased person important enough to deserve stone craftsmanship rather than ordinary burial. The church preserved that much by building the fragment into its cross wall in 1804. They recognised value even when they forgot the name.

At St Mary's parish church (KK019-026115-) in Kilkenny. A fragment (dims. 0.5m x 0.2m) of a 16th-century sarcophagus built into the cross wall constructed 1804 connecting the SW side of the church with the graveyard wall (Bradley 1980, 11, no. 31). A rectangular panel, regarded by Bradley as having derived possibly from the side or front of a sarcophagus (ibid.). Three panels are visible, the right of which has a section of quatrefoil window. The two left panels are representative of ogee-headed windows. Compiled by: Cóilín Ó Drisceoil Date of upload: 4 January 2023

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