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Graveslab

Borris (Twomileborris Par.), County Tipperary North, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Graveslab, Borris (Twomileborris Par.), 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
Borris (Twomileborris Par.)
County
Tipperary North
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.67121, -7.71392
SMR number
TN042-052004-

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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)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Within the graveyard (TN042-052006) there is a late thirteenth/early fourteenth-century graveslab. The worn head, 0.21m x 0.15m, projects by 0.045m above a four-armed fleur-de-lys cross carved in relief, the shaft and base of which, if still in one piece, are buried. The head of the slab is pointed while the remainder is coffin-shaped. The slab ( 0.17m T, Wth 0.5m) is visible above ground to a height of 0.88m, though it tapers as it descends. Hunt detected a very worn inscription on the sinister side, possibly in Black Letter - it may have been added later (Hunt 1974, vol. 1, 231-2).

The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Tipperary. Vol. 1 - North Tipperary' compiled by Jean Farrelly and Caimin O'Brien (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2002). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.

Date of upload/revision: 22 September 2008

Nearby in the register

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

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