What is recorded here

Six phantom chambers of leaves still stand in the broken limestone, waiting for hands that disappeared centuries ago. The tomb gave up its dead body to build a church wall, yet the decorative soul survived inside the new structure. Kilkenny turned death into architecture again, proving that even buried things must keep shaping the world around them.

At St Mary's parish church (KK019-026115-) in Kilkenny, reused in the W face of the 1804 cross wall in the graveyard of the church (Ó Drisceoil 2006, 43). Fragment of a front panel from a 16th-century chest tomb, composed of fossiliferous limestone. It is decorated with six pointed niches containing foliate motifs in false relief. The base has been truncated as has the left. It is possibly from the same monument as KK019-026356-. Compiled by: Cóilín Ó Drisceoil Date of upload: 9 January 2023

Chest tomb, 16th century. Reused in the 19th century within the graveyard wall of St Mary's parish church, Kilkenny; significant as a surviving example of early modern funerary architecture in the region.

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