Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Tomb - effigial
Castlequarter (aghameadle Par.),bunacum, County Tipperary North, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Castlequarter (aghameadle Par.),bunacum
- County
- Tipperary North
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.84906, -8.03455
- SMR number
- TN022-070006-
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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
Situated on a slight rise of ground in undulating countryside in the centre of Toomevara village with a possible church ruins (TN022-070001-) to the N. The poorly preserved remains of an Augustinian priory (TN022-070002-) dedicated to St Mary which was founded some time after 1140 (Gwynn and Hadcock 1970, 155) possibly on the site of an earlier monastic centre dedicated to St Donain. A late fifteenth-century effigial tomb (dims. L 1.33m; top Wth 0.54m; base Wth 0.54m; T 0.17m) described by Hunt (1974, vol. 1, 94, 96, 231) lies outside the S wall at the E end of the Augustinian priory. Described by Gleeson as 'Outside the N wall is a 15th cent. Stone slab showing an ecclesiastic and inscribed in raised letters now partly erased. The name 'Joannes O'Meara' can be read' (Gleeson 1951-2, 133).
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien.
Date of upload: 22 September 2008
References
Gwynn, A. and Hadcock, R.N. 1970 (Reprint 1988) Medieval religious houses of Ireland. Dublin. Irish Academic Press.
Gleeson, D.F. 1951-2 Churches in the deanery of Ormond. North Munster Antiquarian Journal 6, 96-107, 130-35.
Hunt, J. 1974 Irish medieval figure sculpture 1200-1600, 2 vols. Dublin. Irish University Press.
Nearby in the register
- Memorial stoneunder 1 mi
- Religious house - Augustinian friarsunder 1 mi
- Fontunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.