KK-STMG-344

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

DOM RICHARDVS ROTHE EDWARDI FILIVS HVIVS CIVITATIS NATALITIAE MVNERIBVS PRAECIPVIS HONORIBVSQ PRAECIPVIS HONORIBVSQ MAGNA CVM PROBITATIS PRVDE[N]TIAE INTEGRITATIS AC VRBANITATIS LAVDE PERFVNCTVS TERRAM SE TERRAE REDDITVRVM NOSCENS VIVENS CONDEBAT PRIMVS CONDITVR SECV[N]DO:JVLII:1637 BENE ILLI PRECARE QVISQVIS ES SIC TIBI ALII BENE PRECENTVR On the sinister of the column pedestals is carved: OPIFICE PATRICIO KERIN

Memorial Type: 
Renaissance Mural-tomb
Grave location
County: 
Kilkenny
Additional details
Stonecutter/monumental sculptor: 
Walter Kerin
Erected by: 
Unknown
Relationship: 
Unknown
Denomination: 
Unknown
Orientation of face: 
East
Number of components: 
0
Inscribed faces: 
0
Height (cm): 
597
Width (cm): 
330
Thickness (mm): 
78
Memorial date stated
Year: 
0
Memorial date inferred: 
1637
Inscription date primary: 
1637
Memorial material: 
Limestone
Condition of grave: 
Sound, displaced
Condition of inscription: 
Clear
Technique of inscription: 
Relief painted
Name of recorder: 
C O Drisceoil
Number of people commemorated: 
0
Notes: 

Richard Rothe Renaissance mural-monument c.1637 Mural-monument to Richard Rothe. Its present position is some three feet higher than its original. Carrigan (1905 iii, 94-5) notes that