KK-STMG-104

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

Inventas aut qui vitam exoduere per artes. / To the memory/ of/ Alderman William Colles/ whose steady attention to all religious and civic duties/ gained him the love of his fellow citizens/ and/ whose ingenuity/ procured him the admiration of strangers. / By an uncommon genius he discovered/ and/ by unwearied application and patience he perfected/ the art/ of sawing, boreing and polishing marble by water mills/ which/ by lowering the price of that valuable manufacture/ rendered it more extensive. / His whole life/ was employed in works beneficial to Society./ His manner was inoffensive and his conduct always upright. /He died the 8th day of March 1779 in the 68th year of his age/This Monument was Erected by his Afflicted Son William in/Testimony of his reverence to the memory of so excellent a Father.

Memorial Type: 
Classical type
Grave location
County: 
Kilkenny
Additional details
Erected by: 
William Colles
Relationship: 
Son
Denomination: 
Church of Ireland
Orientation of face: 
East West
Number of components: 
1
Inscribed faces: 
1
Height (cm): 
470
Width (cm): 
285
Thickness (mm): 
48
Memorial date stated
Year: 
0
Memorial date inferred: 
1779
Inscription date primary: 
1779
Memorial material: 
Limestone
Condition of grave: 
Sound, in place
Condition of inscription: 
Mainly decipherable
Technique of inscription: 
Incised
Name of recorder: 
Fergal Donoghue
Number of people commemorated: 
0
Notes: 

This is a large classical type monument, the pediment is supported by plain Doric columns on entablature with a projecting cornice.