What is recorded here

Half a century before the tomb was cut, Dominican monks prayed in that same recess. David Kelly junior and Anabala Barrett stopped using the chamber for worship and turned it into a burial box. They did not destroy the monastery or erase the monks. They joined their own deaths to the older faith already living in the wall.

In Burrishoole Dominican friary (MA067-014001-) incorporated into an altar recess at the S end of the E wall of the S chapel. A 17th-century limestone chest tomb surmounted by a cut-stone round-headed arch is inserted into the 15th-century altar recess, partly blocking the double ogee-headed light. The edges of the coffin lid are sculpted with mouldings mirrored by similar mouldings along the base of tomb. A Latin inscription is carved in false relief along the front of the tomb just underneath the coffin lid: Orate pro anima Davidis oge Kelly qui me fieri fecit sibi et heredibus suis Anno Domini 1623 et ejus uxori Anabala Barrett. It translates as: Pray for the soul of David Kelly junior who had me made and his heirs AD 1623 and [for the soul] of his wife Anabla Barrett.’ Attached images: MA067-014005-_01.JPG 17th-century wall monument/O’Kelly tomb in 15th-century altar recess MA067-014005-_02.JPG Dedication carved on side of tomb MA067-014005-_03.JPG Date: 1623 Compiled by: Anne-Julie Lafaye and Jane O'Shaughnessy Date of upload: 12 January 2022

A 17th-century chest tomb; significant as an example of early modern funerary architecture incorporated into a medieval friary.

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