CO-SMCY-0831

Described in Samuel Hayman's "Ecclesiastical Antiquities of Youghal no1" thus: "In the North wall opposite is a richly recessed altartomb,  of which we furnish an illustration.It is wrought of fine hard sandstone, in the Perpendicular style of the fifteenth century.The sides are formed by two light buttresses, from which springs a moulded ogee arch crocketted to the top and trminating in a finial.The centre is occupied by the principal arch, moulded and cusped.The base and recess are panelled and finished in trefoils, with their spandrils delicately carved.On a shield over the arch is the name of the occupant of the tomb, who is supposed to have been Thomas Fleming, seventh Lord Slane, who died in 1436. Lord Slane was twice married; and in corroboration of the supposition that he was the individual interred beneath this tomb, three skulls, one of a male and two apparently of females, were, in the progress of some recent researches, found in the tomb."