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Tomb - effigial

Castlequarter (Aghameadle Par.),Bunacum, County Tipperary North, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Tomb - effigial, Castlequarter (Aghameadle Par.), Bunacum, County Tipperary North, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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

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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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