What is recorded here

That is an area in Kilkenny, Ireland. The exact visible shape and local identity should emerge from the facts already supplied.

At St Mary's parish church (KK019-026115-) in Kilkenny. A mid-16th-century chest tomb panel, probably a side panel, composed of fossiliferous limestone, depicting an archbishop figure sculpture. Hunt (1974, vol. 1, 197) describes it as, ‘a semi-circular headed niche with the figure of an archbishop holding a cross-staff in his left hand and blessing with his right. It is in the style of the O’Tunney workshop and although it has no decoration round the sides, it evidently formed part of a tomb-chest. Its date is mid-sixteenth century’. The panel was set into the 1804 wall connecting the SW side of the church with the graveyard wall. It was moved to its current location within the S transept of the church in 2015. Compiled by: Cóilín Ó Drisceoil Date of upload: 4 January 2023

Chest tomb, 16th century. A rare example of late medieval funerary sculpture in Ireland, significant for its depiction of an archbishop and use of fossiliferous limestone.

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