The history, architecture, and antiquities of the cathedral church of StCanice, Kilkenny . Kilkenny. This circumstance is alluded to in the mutilated CHAP. II.] INSCRIBED MONUMENTS. 275 portion of the inscription on the tomb. In 1617 and 1619 Richard Pembroke OmnelTs Booh, was sheriff of the city, and in 1644 David Pembroke filled the same office. The latter was, probably, the Mr. Pembroke, merchant, who, in the Deposi- Coil. tions of 1641, is denounced as one of the cheefe citizens who encouraged the rebels to plunder the Protestant inhabitants. [39.] p*tt 3jacct GullidirC Bonoghou
The history, architecture, and antiquities of the cathedral church of StCanice, Kilkenny . Kilkenny. This circumstance is alluded to in the mutilated CHAP. II.] INSCRIBED MONUMENTS. 275 portion of the inscription on the tomb. In 1617 and 1619 Richard Pembroke OmnelTs Booh, was sheriff of the city, and in 1644 David Pembroke filled the same office. The latter was, probably, the Mr. Pembroke, merchant, who, in the Deposi- Coil. tions of 1641, is denounced as one of the cheefe citizens who encouraged the rebels to plunder the Protestant inhabitants. [39.] p*tt 3jacct GullidirC Bonoghou quonba burgcnsis bilk 5c Iristounc ^juxta feUfccnta ql drift xfff tfe tries nofactnfarts 0° 5l 1597 | Cattjerfna iWonf cf9 tuor q* drift [ ] Translation :—Here lieth William Donoghou, formerly burgess of the town of Irish-town, adjoining Kilkenny, who died the 13th day of November, 1597. And Cathe-rine Moni, his wife, who died [ ]. This monument bears a graceful and elaborately interlaced cross issuingfrom a calvary ; at each side of the shaft are the emblems of the Passion ;. No. 52. above are carved the sun and moon, denoting Christ and the Church. Themonument is here carefully engraved to a scale of half an inch to a foot. The person for whom this monument was placed appears by his name to havebeen a member of the ancient sept of ODonnchadha, the head of which was for-merly amongst the principal chieftains, or reguli, of Ossory, and seated at magnificent abbey of Jerpoint, founded by Donough ODonnchadha in theend of the twelfth century, affords sufficient evidence of their wealth and name has modernly been corrupted into Dunphy: and we find the memberof the family who was interred in the cathedral, and who appears to have beena trader and member of the Corporation of Irishtown, called indifferently 276 INSCRIBED MONUMENTS. [sect. n. Thr «od in- Donoghou and Dunphy in the municipal records. He was elected bailiff of?hc!>n>»raLn Irislitown
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