P0598

Personal Data

Surname	FitzEustace
First Name	Edward
Nickname
Dating	1355?
Location	Old Kilcullen
Life dates	+25 Oct 1454
Title	of Castlemartin, Kilcullen, Co.Kildare, and of Harristown, some distance E of Kilcullen, Co.Kildare High Sheriff of County Kildare in 1421, 1423, 1425, 1426 and 1430, appointed a Privy Counsellor in 1431 when he went to report to the child Henry VI, in 1446 Castlemartin was unsuccessfully attacked by Irish tribesmen under O'Connor Faly, Lord Deputy of Ireland 1452-53 and 1454
Close relatives	wife - Alicia children: Sir Thomas FitzEustace, of Castlemartin Rowland FitzEustace, Baron Portlester (born c.1430) of Castlemartin, lived at Harristown, Co.Kildare
Type of the object	Tomb effigy
Place of manufacturing (place of burial)	Old Kilcullen
Place of exposition	St. John's Parish church, Ballymore Eustace, County Kildare, Ireland
Date of manufacturing
Artist

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Effigy of a FitzEustace knight, St.John's CoI church, Ballymore Eustace, Co.Kildare.
[Tickell, 1955] says there is some evidence that this is Sir Edward FitzEustace (died 1454) but some authorities date it to a later period. e.g. The OPW sign at the site (see full size) says it is early 1500s.
This effigy was formerly at Old Kilcullen and was later moved to Ballymore Eustace

1782 sketch by Austin Cooper of the above effigy. At which time it was in Old Kilcullen.
Note, probably by Albert Damer Cooper, says that the effigy is "supposed to be Sir Rowland Eustace or Gerald Earl of Kildare"

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The tomb, which features a damaged figure of a knight, may have been made for Richard, son of Sir Roland FitzEustace, Baron Portlester and Lord of Castlemartin or for Thomas, Lord of Castlemartin. Under the tomb was a vault in which eleven skeletons were found, and this remains in situ

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