What is recorded here

Donaghmore church in County Kilkenny still holds a broken chest tomb against its south wall, its surviving stone measuring sixty-five centimetres long and decorated with a four-armed fleur-de-lys cross inside a circle. The tomb may connect to the earlier burial Carrigan mentioned, suggesting a life was once marked there before the church and town claimed the place. What is missing has not disappeared; it has changed form, scattered into memory, stone and story.

Within the chancel of Donaghmore church (KK010-005001-) against the S wall. A fragment of the mensa of a chest tomb (L 0.65m; Wth 0.95m; T 0.2m) decorated with a four-armed fleur-de-lys cross with an inner circle. Portion of the border survives on either side. This may be a fragment of the tomb (KK010-005003-) mentioned by Carrigan (1905, vol. 2, 83). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 3 May 2019

Medieval chest tomb, 14th–15th century. Its carved fleur-de-lys cross indicates a Christian funerary monument, likely associated with the ecclesiastical site of Donaghmore church.

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