Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Inscribed slab (present location)
Townparks (roscrea Par.), County Tipperary North, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Townparks (roscrea Par.)
- County
- Tipperary North
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.95582, -7.79632
- SMR number
- TN012-010017-
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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
Listed by Okasha & Forsyth as Monaincha 6 who state that the slab of old red sandstone measuring 0.33m x 0.335m x 0.045m , 'was first recorded in 1964 when it was in the NMI. A file record sheet, FILE IA/192/64 was then made by the museum, and the three fragments were photographed. The file record states that the fragments had been found `in various places in the early church site of ... Monaincha' and were mounted on the wall of the church (TN018-001001-) at Monaincha. In October 1964 the fragments were removed from the Museum by the OPW and by 1983 were in the depot in Kilkenny where they remain' (Okasha & Forsyth 2001, 209). The inscribed slab reads [--]C~[S~][.][-- which can be expanded to [--] SANCTUS [--] (Okasha & Forsyth 2001, 212). According to Okasha & Forsyth `The close similarity with the lettering on Monaincha 5 (TN018-001014-) suggests that this might also have read [s]c~[s~] for s(an)c(tu)s `saint''. This slab (TN018-001015-) is now on display in the Black Mills (TN012-010014-) Interpretative Centre at Roscrea, but originally came from the vicinity of the Romanesque church at Monaincha.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien.
Date of upload: 22 September 2008
References
Okasha, E. and Forsyth, K. 2001 Early Christian inscriptions of Munster: a corpus of the inscribed stones. Cork University Press.
Nearby in the register
- Cross - High cross (present location)under 1 mi
- Mill - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
- Inscribed slab (present location)under 1 mi
- Cross - High cross (present location)under 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.