Somewhere in the fabric of Johnstown village, Co. Kildare, two carved armorial plaques are embedded in the wall of a primary school, quietly marking a family's claim to status and lineage long after the building they once adorned has disappeared. Armorial plaques of this kind were typically set into the stonework of a house, gate pier, or formal entrance to display a family's coat of arms, announcing ownership and rank to anyone who passed. That they ended up in a school wall speaks to a familiar Irish pattern: old stone reused, repurposed, absorbed into newer structures as the original context crumbled or was cleared away.

Clonagh, a short distance from Johnstown, is identified as the likely source for these displaced fragments. The connection was noted by O'Leary in the late 1890s, suggesting that by that point the plaques had already made their journey from their original setting into the school wall. A separate architectural fragment, now set into a modern wall elsewhere in the village, may have travelled the same route from Clonagh, though the link is less certain. What once stood at Clonagh, and whose arms the plaques bore, the surviving record does not say.