KK-STMG-339

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

Sacred to the memory/ of/ Sarah, Wife of P. Fitzsimons/ of Abbeyleix,/ and of/ Sarah Leigh, her Daughter,/ Wife of Samuel Leigh/ Governor of the Co. Prison,/ and of/ Samuel Leigh her husband/ and of/ Elizabeth Mary Leigh their daughter/ whose remains are laid in their/ family burial place outside this Church./ 'Those that sleep with Jesus will God bring with Him'/ Erected 1879

Memorial Type: 
Mural Plaque
Grave location
County: 
Kilkenny
Additional details
Erected by: 
Unknown
Relationship: 
Unknown
Denomination: 
Church of Ireland
Orientation of face: 
South
Number of components: 
2
Inscribed faces: 
1
Height (cm): 
119
Width (cm): 
102
Thickness (mm): 
0
Memorial date stated
Year: 
1879
Memorial date inferred: 
0
Inscription date primary: 
0
Memorial material: 
Limestone
Condition of grave: 
Sound, displaced
Condition of inscription: 
Clear
Technique of inscription: 
Incised painted
Name of recorder: 
F. Donoghue
Number of people commemorated: 
0
Notes: 

Mural plaque comprising a black-marble ground onto which is fixed a white-marble stylised portico which bears the inscription tablet. This is flanked by hexagonal pillars in high relief which are surmounted by a moulded architrave and plain triangular pediment.