What is recorded here

Eighteen centimetres of fossil limestone still protrudes from the south transept wall of St Mary’s, Kilkenny, its irregular incised lines preserving a ghost of the effigy that disappeared. A person lived beneath that stone, loved or feared, remembered well enough to carve and forgotten enough to lose. The church kept what it could.

At St Mary's parish church (KK019-026115-) in Kilkenny. A 13th/14th-century fragment of an effigy (L 0.19m; Wth 0.18m) made from fossiliferous limestone. A square fragment (dims. 0.19m x 0.18m) built into the exterior face of the S wall of the S transept of St Mary’s Church. Described by Bradley (1980, 11, no. 30) as, ‘a fragment ornamented with a series of irregularly incised lines, perhaps a remnant of an incised effigial monument’. Compiled by: Cóilín Ó Drisceoil Date of upload: 21 November 2022

Medieval effigial tomb fragment, 13th/14th century. The fragment, made from fossiliferous limestone, is significant as a rare surviving example of early medieval funerary sculpture in Kilkenny.

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