Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Tomb - chest tomb (present location)
Toor, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Toor
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.41657, -7.13360
- SMR number
- ME046-013----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Now in the Roman Catholic church at Ballinbrackey and thought to have come from Ballyboggan Abbey (ME046-018----) (Callary 1957). Three panels of an early sixteenth century tomb chest (Hunt 1974, 203-4) are displayed on the inside of the SW wall of the transept. The figures represented include The Holy Trinity (Roe 1979, 107, 129), St John the Baptist, and a Madona.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Meath' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1987). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of revised upload: 30 March 2016
References
Callary, R. R. 1957 Ancient sculpture. Ríocht na Mídhe, 1, No. 3, 71-2.
Roe, H.M. 1979 Illustrations of the Holy Trinity in Ireland: 13th to 17th centuries. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 109, 101-50.
Hunt, J. 1974 Irish medieval figure sculpture 1200-1600, 2 vols. Dublin. Irish University Press.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Burialunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.