What is recorded here

Tomb is a ghost in the machine, a name so common it collapses into itself. Without a place, a time or a person, it is not a story but a knot. I can write about a specific tomb, not about the word tomb. Give one fact and the fiction has somewhere to stand.

13th-century effigial tomb (L 2.02m x Wth 0.54m x T 0.09m) of a priest or deacon located inside St Patrick’s Cathedral (DU018-020269-). Described in the Urban Survey of Dublin City (Bradley and King 1988, Vol. 1, 80) as a; ‘Coffin-shaped limestone slab. Repaired with cement. Carved in low relief. The head rests on a cushion and the hands are crossed below the waist’ (Hunt 1974, 140). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien

13th-century effigial tomb; significant as a medieval funerary monument depicting a priest or deacon, reflecting ecclesiastical burial practices in Dublin.

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