What is recorded here

Marian and i walked the quiet lane behind Jerpoint Park, passing the tomb of Saint Nicholas, a stone slab carved in early fourteenth-century low relief. People called it the grave of the bishop from Myra, yet it may have belonged to a Cistercian priest from Jerpoint Abbey, carried through centuries of belief and forgetting. We stood beside it in the rain, listening to water strike the grass, and I imagined the dead man watching the bridge, the taverns and the road leave Newtown Jerpoint behind.

In the nave of the Augustinian Priory (KK032-017004-) at Inistioge. A floor slab with the incised figure of a Prior. Lombardic script reads ‘HIC IACET BONE MEMORIE QVONDAM PRIOR ISTIUS LOCI’. (Carrigan 1905, vol. 4, 113) Revised by: Mary Tunney Date of revision: 29 May 2013

Medieval effigial tomb, 13th–14th century. Signifies the presence of an Augustinian priory and provides evidence of ecclesiastical burial practices in the region.

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