KK-STMG-358

Graveyard: 
St. Mary's
Exact wording of epitaph: 

H - QUI OBIT + XIIII DIE MARTIS ---- MCCCCC XLIII OCTOBER

Memorial Type: 
Mensa Altar Slab
Grave location
County: 
Kilkenny
Additional details
Erected by: 
Unknown
Relationship: 
Unknown
Denomination: 
Unknown
Orientation of face: 
East West
Number of components: 
1
Inscribed faces: 
1
Height (cm): 
84
Width (cm): 
62
Thickness (mm): 
0
Memorial date stated
Year: 
0
Memorial date inferred: 
1546
Inscription date primary: 
1546
Memorial material: 
Limestone
Condition of grave: 
Very worn
Condition of inscription: 
Traces
Technique of inscription: 
False Relief
Name of recorder: 
C. O Drisceoil
Number of people commemorated: 
0
Notes: 

Inscribed mensa or ledger c.1543 The upper half of a rectangular slab, the mensa of an altar-tomb or a ledger, decorated with a seven-armed segmented ringed cross with geometric fleur-de-lis terminals. The cross-head rises from a shaft which is knobbed at its top. Streamers flank either side of the shaft. A marginal inscription in false relief Latin black-letter reads: H - QUI OBIT + XIIII DIE MARTIS ---- MCCCCC XLIII OCTOBER Translation: H[ere lies] who died 13th March 1543 October