What is recorded here

One chamber, one woman, one visible edge: a crude carving stands at St. John’s graveyard in County Meath, small enough to touch and strange enough to remember. She wears a pillbox hat, a belted gown, a throat broach, pointed shoes and carries a T-shaped stick, as if death had dressed her for an ordinary outing. The chamber does not claim to be grand; it claims to be true.

The crudely carved effigy of a woman (L 1.43m; Wth 0.34-0.39m; T 0.1-0.15m) is against the N wall at the NW angle of St. John’s graveyard (ME017-044035-). She is wearing a pillbox hat, a long gown belted at the waist and with a broach at her throat. She has a T-shaped walking stick and pointed shoes. (Hickey 1974; Hunt 1974, 206; Mc Cabe 2007, 139) Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 2 July, 2014

Effigial tomb, medieval period. The tomb is significant as a rare surviving example of a carved effigy in the region, depicting a woman in detailed costume, which provides insight into medieval funerary art and fashion.

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