KK-STMG-252

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

Erected by Elizabeth Dea alias Delany in/ memory of her husband Joseph Dea who dep/ this life Oct 22nd 1808 aged 33 yrs. R.I.P. Amen

Memorial Type: 
Headstone
Grave location
County: 
Kilkenny
Additional details
Erected by: 
Elizabeth Dea
Relationship: 
Wife
Denomination: 
Church of Ireland
Orientation of face: 
East West
Number of components: 
1
Inscribed faces: 
1
Height (cm): 
55
Width (cm): 
910
Thickness (mm): 
0
Memorial date stated
Year: 
0
Memorial date inferred: 
1808
Inscription date primary: 
1808
Memorial material: 
Limestone
Condition of grave: 
Sound, in place but half buried
Condition of inscription: 
Clear, but lower half buried
Technique of inscription: 
Incised
Name of recorder: 
F. Donoghue
Number of people commemorated: 
0
Notes: 

Inscribed headstone with rounded central feature and concave shouldered top. Within a sunburst is an IHS surmounted by a cross with expanded terminals. The sunburst is surrounded by a scalloped circle, below which is a scroll with 'Gloria in excelsis deo' incised. Flanking each side of the scroll is a round-headed panel decorated with a chalice. The lower half of the stone and thus the last line of the inscription is now buried.