What is recorded here

Five late medieval limestone panels from two different Kildare friaries now crowd one church wall, proving that tomb stones travel further than the dead who made them. One panel still shows Christ bound and stripped beneath the words ECCE HOMO, while another sets his crucifixion beside John and Mary. They may have left a Carmelite or Franciscan house, been carried through Kildare, and been reset without asking whether memory belonged to one order or another.

Late medieval limestone panels (KD022-029062-, KD022-029063-, KD022-029064-, KD022-029065- and KD022-029066-) set in the N transept wall of the modern Carmelite church may have originated in the earlier Carmelite Friary (KD022-029007-) immediately to the S, however, acording to Bradley et al. (1986 Vol. 3, 244-6), they are said to have come from the Franciscan Friary (KD022-029006-). KD022-029062-: two rectangular end panels from a 16th century tomb; one (H 0.72m; Wth 0.66m) decorated in false relief with a depiction of Christ stripped of his garment, crowned with thorns and tied hand and foot, with an incised Roman capital inscription ‘ECCE HOMO’ (Hunt 1974, no. 84, pl. 234); the second panel (H 0.73m; Wth 0.66m) decorated in false relief with a crucifixion in an ogee-headed panel: Christ is nailed to a Latin cross, and is flanked by John and Mary (Hunt 1974, no. 83, pl. 233). Compiled by: Gearóid Conroy Date of upload: 8 February 2012

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