What is recorded here

Donaghmore church in County Kilkenny holds a chest tomb made by Theobald Butler and his wife Margaret Fitzpatrick around 1600. Its Latin name is carved in raised letters, while a concrete construction now occupies the southeast chancel corner where the original stood. A medieval slab against the south wall may still belong to that lost burial, preserving the shape of two people who asked to be remembered long after their hands stopped shaping stone.

In Donaghmore church (KK010-005001-). According to Carrigan (1905, vol. 2, 83) this was located in the SE corner of the chancel. It is described as a chest tomb with an inscription in latin in raised letters transcribed by Carrigan (ibid.) as, 'THEBALDVS. BVTLRVS. ET. VXOR. EIVS. MARGARETA. PATRICII. HOC. SEPVL.' and translated as, 'Theobald Butler and his wife Margaret Fitzpatrick [got] this tomb made'. The slab is dated to c. 1600 (Cockerham and Harris 2001, 186). The chest tomb currently occupying the SE corner of the chancel is a concrete construction. To the W of this modern tomb, against the S wall, there is a medieval slab (KK010-005006-)which appears to be portion of a mensa and may be part of the tomb to which Carrigan refers. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of revised upload: 3 May 2019

Medieval chest tomb, 14th–16th century. Its significance lies in its association with Donaghmore church and the presence of a Latin inscription, indicating possible ecclesiastical or elite burial.

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