Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Inscribed slab
Monaincha, County Tipperary North, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Monaincha
- County
- Tipperary North
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- NULL
- Coordinates
- 52.94632, -7.74795
- SMR number
- TN018-001014-
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Listed by Okasha & Forsyth as Monaincha 5 who state that the slab of old red sandstone measuring 0.445m x 0.58m x 0.04m,`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~ AE[.][-- which can be expanded to [--] SANCTUS AE[.][--] (Okasha & Forsyth 2001, 209). According to Okasha & Forsyth `The letters CS are an abbreviation, or part of an abbreviation, perhaps [s]c~s~, the standard abbreviation of s(an)c(tu)s `saint', found in the genitive case s~c~i~ on a slab from Kilbrecan, Aran Mór [Macalister 1949, no. 531, KBRCN/1]' (Okasha & Forsyth 2001, 210). This slab is now on display in the Black Mills Interpretative Centre at Roscrea (TN012-010016), but originally came from the vicinity of the Romanesque church at Monaincha.
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien.
Date of upload: 22 September 2008
Nearby in the register
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Cross - High crossunder 1 mi
- Inscribed slabunder 1 mi
- Inscribed slabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.