This one, inside the ruined Ballygurrim church near Jamestown in County Kilkenny, commemorates Robert Den of Ballybussher, who died in 1626, and his wife Johanna Aylward. What makes it worth pausing over is not just the inscription but the carving that surrounds it: a large cross in relief running the length of the stone, flanked on either side by emblems of the Passion, the instruments associated with the crucifixion in Catholic iconography, things like the crown of thorns, the nails, and the lance.

The slab was recorded by the historian William Carrigan in the early twentieth century, and later noted by Paul Cockerham in his 2009 study of post-Reformation funerary monuments in Ireland. The combination of a Latin memorial inscription with Passion emblems is typical of the period, a moment when Gaelic and Old English Catholic families in Kilkenny continued to commission elaborate commemorative stonework despite the pressures of the Reformation. The Aylward family were a well-established Old English dynasty in the county, and the Den connection to Ballybussher places this slab within a local landowning network that persisted through considerable political turbulence. The stone itself, set into the chancel floor rather than mounted on a wall, follows an older medieval tradition of grave slabs as a permanent, physical claim on sacred ground.