A graveslab in a ruined Kildare church carries a Latin inscription that does something relatively rare for a sixteenth-century memorial: it credits its subject not merely with dying, but with rebuilding the very building he was buried in. The stone commemorates Richard, son of Malachy Daly of Ballynadrumny, and the inscription, translated from the Latin, reads as his burial-place, noting him as the noble-born restorer of the church, in the year of the Lord 1555.

The Daly family were evidently people of local consequence, and the phrase "noble-born restorer" suggests that Richard's reconstruction of the church was considered significant enough to be the defining fact of his commemoration, more so than rank or lineage alone. The slab was recorded and its inscription translated in a publication by Fitzgerald dating to the turn of the twentieth century, which gives some sense of how long antiquarians have been quietly noting this stone. A second graveslab, possibly from the seventeenth century, also survives in the same church, suggesting the site continued to serve as a burial place for families of standing for at least a century after Richard Daly was interred there. Gravestabs of this kind, flat carved slabs laid horizontally over a grave or set into a church floor, were a common form of commemoration among the Gaelic and Anglo-Norman gentry of late medieval Ireland, though inscribed examples with this degree of biographical specificity are less frequently encountered.