What is recorded here

Julia Nugent died in 1617 and Gerald Aylmer followed her in 1634, yet both still kneel side by side under a limestone canopy. They waited inside the old church for nearly two centuries before Fenton Aylmer carried the monument into St. Peter’s in 1812. The tomb did not belong to the new building; the new building arrived later to give the dead a worthy room.

Set into a wall alcove on the S side of the chancel of a 19th century Church of Ireland church dedicated to St. Peter which is standing in the N quadrant of a graveyard (KD009-014004-) c. 10m N of a ruined post-medieval church (KD009-014001-) possibly built on the site of an Early Christian church (KD009-014002-). A fine Renaissance canopied-tomb of limestone with the kneeling effigies of Sir Gerald Aylmer (d. 1634) and his wife, Dame Julia Nugent (d. 1617), and panels carrying their coats of arms. A plaque also records, 'This monument was moved from the old church, November, 1812, by Sir Fenton Aylmer Bart.' (Fitzgerald 1891-5, 207; Aylmer 1895, 301, 305-7; Aylmer 1935, 383-5; Killanin and Duignan 1967, 372). Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 27 November 2015

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