Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveslab
Ballynaclogh, County Tipperary North, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballynaclogh
- County
- Tipperary North
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.82562, -8.15995
- SMR number
- TN027-003009-
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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
Ballynaclogh nave and chancel church (TN027-003002-) stands in the E quadrant of a rectangular-shaped graveyard (TN027-003006-), immediately SE of a 19th century Protestant church. Only the top half of a possible 13th/14th century recumbent graveslab (dims. L 0.73m x Wth 0.43m x T 0.16m) with pointed top is now visible lying against the internal face of the E gable of the medieval parish church ruins. The broken slab is decorated with a double line quatrefoil cross surmounting a twin line incised shaft with circular knop just below the cross head. The pointed shape of this graveslab is similar to the late thirteenth/early fourteenth-century graveslab (TN042-052004) in Twomileborris graveyard (TN042-052006-).The cross-head formed by four incised rings is an unusual motif and in England is dated to the late 12th-13th century where it is seen as an early type of cross-slab in the development of this type of cross which is succeeded by crosses formed with broken rings (Ryder 1991, 52). A similar cross formed with four broken rings can be seen on a head slab (WX029-013035-) at St. Mary's Church (WX029-013002-), New Ross, Co. Wexford which has been dated to the late 13th/early 14th century (Hunt 1974, Vol. 2, Plate 97; Vol. 1, 239, No. 269). This graveslab may be related to the Group 3 type floriated cross-slab identified by Maher (1997, 16-19) and best exemplified by cross-slabs no. 2 and 3 (TS070-040091/082-) at Fethard Holy Trinity Church (TS070-040001), Co. Tipperary (ibid., Fig. 31, 86). It is possible that the medieval cross slab grave cover at Ballynaclogh dates from the 13th rather than the 14th century.
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Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien.
Date of upload: 31 August 2022
References
Maher, D. 1997 Medieval grave-slabs of County Tipperary, 1200-1600 A.D. BAR British Series 262.
Hunt, J. 1974 Irish medieval figure sculpture 1200-1600, 2 vols. Dublin. Irish University Press.
Ryder, P. 1991 Medieval Cross Slab Grave Covers in West Yorkshire. West Yorkshire Archaeology Service.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.