Tomb of Saint Nicholas

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Coordinates: 52°30′36″N 7°10′08″W / 52.5100°N 7.1688°W / 52.5100; -7.1688
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Tomb of Saint Nicholas
Tombstone of a medieval cleric, popularly believed to depict Saint Nicholas
Tomb of Saint Nicholas is located in Ireland
Tomb of Saint Nicholas
Shown within Ireland
LocationCounty Kilkenny, Republic of Ireland
Coordinates52°30′36″N 7°10′08″W / 52.5100°N 7.1688°W / 52.5100; -7.1688
Typeeffigy
Part ofNewtown Jerpoint
History
MaterialStone
Foundedearly 14th century

The tomb of Saint Nicholas is a slab effigy in low relief of an early 4th-century ecclesiastic popularly associated with Saint Nicholas of Myra in County Kilkenny, Ireland.[1][2] While more probably a local priest from Jerpoint Abbey,[2] it lies in the medieval lost town of Newtown Jerpoint, just west of the Cistercian Jerpoint Abbey.[1]

It is 2.0 miles (3.2 km) southwest of

Jerpoint Park
. St. Nicholas's Church and graveyard are in the town, where the earthly remains of St. Nicholas of Myra are said to be buried. Belmore House stands at the top of the town.

The memorial has been moved since 1839, and it has sustained damage from the fall of a tree.[1][3] A conservation plan was developed by the Heritage Council in 2007.[4] In advance of conservation work in 2013, St. Nicholas' church and the tomb of St. Nicholas were surveyed and modelled in 3D.[5]

History

View of St. Nicholas Church from Belmore House

The lost town of Newtown Jerpoint was founded by either Earl Marshall or Griffin Fitzwilliam in the 12th century

medieval settlements in Ireland.[8] The ruins of St Nicholas's medieval parish church dates from the 12th to 13th century, with a late medieval rood
gallery and a tower where the parish priest would have resided.

Belmore House was commissioned as a hunting lodge by

Sir Richard Morrison.[9] An extension of the house was planned as a square villa at the east end of the house with the rest of the house to become a service wing, but it was never built.[10] The Earl of Belmore's main residence was Castle Coole
, in County Fermanagh.

Legends

The bones of

Holy Land Crusades.[citation needed
]

Churches dedicated to St. Nicholas

In a

Church of St. Nicholas Without, less than a kilometre away, and by the Roman Catholic Church of St. Nicholas of Myra Without
in nearby Francis Street.

References

Notes

  1. ^ a b c Oxford Archaeology 2007, p. 82
  2. ^ a b Hunt 1974
  3. ^ Murtagh 1997
  4. ^ Oxford Archaeology 2007
  5. ^ Discovery Programme 2013, p. 14
  6. ^ a b Oxford Archaeology 2007, p. 26
  7. ^ Oxford Archaeology 2007, p. 17
  8. ^ Oxford Archaeology 2007, p. 11
  9. ^ Rowan 2016, p. 14
  10. ^ Oxford Archaeology 2007, p. 83

Sources

  • Oxford Archaeology (2007). "Newtown Jerpoint County Kilkenny Conservation Plan" (PDF). The Heritage Council. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 October 2016.
  • Barry, Terry (1998). "0Socio-economic Impacts of Irish Medieval Settlements" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 March 2012.
  • Rowan, Ann Martha (2016). "Co. Kilkenny, Belmore Lodge (Jerpoint)". dia.ie. Dictionary of Irish Architects.
  • "Belmore Papers (D3007)" (PDF). Public Records Office Northern Ireland. 2007. Archived from the original (PDF) on 29 August 2011.
  • "LiDAR at the Discovery Programme". discoveryprogramme.ie. 2011. Archived from the original on 30 September 2011.
  • Discovery Programme (2013). "Advancing Research in Irish Archaeology Annual Report 2013" (PDF). discoveryprogramme.ie. The Discovery Programme/Heritage Council.
  • Hunt, John (1974). Irish medieval figure sculpture, 1200-1600 : a study of Irish tombs with notes on costume and armour. Dublin: Irish University Press.
    ISBN 085667012X
    .
  • Murtagh, B (1997). "The Medieval Parish Church and Graveyard of St Nicholas, Newtown Jerpoint". Old Kilkenny Review (49). Kilkenny Archaeological Society: 118–129.

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