KK-KLMJ-04

Graveyard: 
The Killeen
Exact wording of epitaph: 

The Right Honorable Sarah Taylor
Second Countess of Carrick
died August 11th 1811 in the 81st year of her age.

Memorial Type: 
Table tomb
Grave location
County: 
Kilkenny
Latitude: 
52.542326388889
Longitude: 
-7.1872683333333
Additional details
Stonecutter/monumental sculptor: 
Unknown
Erected by: 
Unknown
Denomination: 
Church of Ireland
Orientation of face: 
E
Number of components: 
3
Inscribed faces: 
1
Height (cm): 
235
Width (cm): 
112
Thickness (mm): 
99
Memorial date stated
Year: 
1811
Memorial date inferred: 
1811
Inscription date primary: 
1811
Memorial material: 
Limestone
Condition of grave: 
Sound in place
Condition of inscription: 
Mainly decipherable
Technique of inscription: 
Incised
Stone top: 
Flat
Letter style: 
Roman
Introductory term: 
The Right Honourable Sarah Taylor Second Countess
Inscription legible: 
Yes
Number of people commemorated: 
1
People commemorated: 
Title: 
Countess of Carrick
Name: 
Sarah
Surname: 
Butler nee Taylor
Date of birth - year: 
1730
Date of death - day: 
11
Date of death - month: 
August
Date of death - year: 
1811
Age: 
81
Address: 
Mount Juliet and later Kingstown
Notes: 

The obituary for Countess SarahTaylor as reported at the time

We regret  extremely to have to announce the demise of the Countess Dowager of Carrick which occurred at Kingstown on Saturday last after an illness of two days.

Her ladyship was in her 81st year and during her long life the greater portion of which was spent in our country and in our immediate neighbourhood.  A day did not pass, on which the poor and dependant did not receive abundant reason to visit their benevolent patroness with blessings. 

On Thursday the remains of her Ladyship were borne, through Gowran for internment in the family burial ground at Killeen within the Demesne of Mount Juliet.  The funeral was attended by a great number of exhaulted relatives of the deceased, and by a large cortege, comprising the rank, wealth and respectability of our city and county. 

Among her Ladyship's more immediate relatives and attached friends who were in attendence, Were the Hon C.B. C.S. Wandesforde and his sons: The Hon Messrs Maxwell, brothers to Lord Farham:  Rev Mr Prior,  P.S.Butler Esq, Lodge Park.  Messrs Butler Ballyconra: Rev .B Morris &c&c.  The funeral service was celebrated by the Rev .Mr Prior.