What is recorded here

Melted edges and broken angles suggest tomb build and collapse rather than finished design. The chamber may have stood somewhere else before it fell, lost its roof and waited for people to carry it to a new place. Building it back requires measuring what remains, recovering what scattered and assembling a chamber that can be entered, photographed and judged.

In the SW angle of the Grace chapel in Tullaroan church (KK018-032001-). The lid (L 2.07m; Wth 1.01m; T 0.13m) of a chest tomb commemorating Richard Grace, son of Robert of Adamstown, and wife Honora Shortall, dated c. 1600 (Cockerham and Harris 2001, 183). The lid currently rests on a reconstructed chest. The cross is decorated with a seven-armed interlace cross with fleur-de-lys terminals and the shaft rises from a simple triangular base. The inscription, in latin, in raised Roman capitals is visible along the sinister border (Wth 0.12m), the base and continues up the cross shaft (Wth 0.08m). Carrigan (1905, vol. 3, 494) gives the inscription as: RICARDVS GRACE ROB'TI DE ADAMSTOWNE ET ONORA SARTEL EIVS VXOR ME FIERE F[ECRERVNT], and the translation as, 'Richard Grace fitz Robert, of Adamstown, and Onner Shortall, his wife, got me made'. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of revised upload: 28 February 2017

Chest tomb, early 18th century. Signifies a local example of ecclesiastical funerary monuments associated with the Grace family.

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