Jerpoint is notable for its stone carvings, including one at the tomb of Felix Ua Duib Sláin, Bishop of the Diocese of Ossory and Cistercian founder of the abbey.

Several theories about the origin of the name "Jerpoint" exist, one of them being that Jeri is the Latinised version of the Irish name for the River Nore, An Fheoir (without the article "an") and that a bridge (Lat.

Here he constructed the abbey, probably on the site of an earlier Benedictine monastery built in 1160 by Domnall Mac Gilla Patraic, King of Osraige.

The present ruins are very extensive and display some specimens of the later Norman passing into the early English style of architecture.

Jerpoint is notable for its stone carvings, including one at the tomb of Felix Ua Duib Sláin, Bishop of the Diocese of Ossory.

The Cistercian founder of the abbey, Bishop Felix O'Dullany (also O Dulany) who also moved the episcopal see from Aghaboe to Kilkenny[3] is buried Jerpoint.

[8] Nearby is the effigial graveslab of a layman bearing the inscription "HIC IACET THOMAS [...] P[RO]PICIETUR DEUS.

It bears the inscription "Hic iacet edmu[n]dus uaullshe & iohana le botteler uxor eius q[uorum a]nimarum p[ro]picietur deus.

Anno dni M•[c]cc[c]lxxvi" translating to "Hier lie Edmund Walsh & Johanna le Boteller (Butler) his wife.

[12] A poem in the Schools' Collection tells of a journey to Jerpoint passing several other points of interest such as Kilfane.