School: Cill Dara (Pres. Convent) (roll number 15599)
- Location:
- Cill Dara, Co. Chill Dara
- Teacher: Sr. Philomena
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0779, Page 015
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There was a magnificent tomb in our Lady's Chapel in which the Earls of Kildare and their families were interred. Some ancient sculptured stones, now inverted, for preservation, in the wall of the Chapel of the Carmelite Convent, Kildare are said to have been brought from the Gray Abbey. These stones are 1.
The upper portion of a human figure under a Gothic canopy, with a double or archiepiscopal cross, 2. Our Blessed Lord seated, bound with cords and crowned with thorns, the words, Ecce Homs, at side of head, this has also a Gothic canopy overhead. 3. The Crucifiction, figures of the Blessed Virgin and St. John on either side. glories around their heads. - these figures are disproportionally short(continues on next page)
