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Graveslab

Kilcoolyabbey, County Tipperary South, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Graveslab, Kilcoolyabbey, County Tipperary South, 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
Kilcoolyabbey
County
Tipperary South
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.67085, -7.57121
SMR number
TS043-034018-

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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

Secured to the N wall of the chancel of Kilcooly Abbey (TS043-034001-), within the western recess. This is a tapering limestone slab (L 1.94m; Wth at top 0.6m; Wth at base 0.54m; T 0.16m) decorated with a seven-armed floriated cross, with a three bar knop under the cross head and the shaft resting on a curving Calvary mount. There is a shallow chamfer (Wth 0.025m) around the edge of the slab. The latin inscription in black letter script is within a margin on three sides of the slab; it does not continue along the base. This graveslab is likely to be the 'Floor slab, much worn' mentioned by Hunt (1950, 28). It has been transcribed and translated by Carrigan (1903, 455) as: HIC JACET JACOBUS STOC ET MARGARETA BUTHELLER EIUS UXOR QUI ME FIERI FECERUT QUOR AIAB' / PPICIETUR DEUS. PR. & AVE MARIA. PATRICIUS OTUNY SCRIPSIT ANNO DNI / MILLESSIMO A DNI [sic] MCCCCC / LXXX VII, 'Here lie James Stokes and Margaret Butler, his wife, who got me made. On whose souls God have mercy. Our father and Hail Mary. Patrick O'Tunny inscribed [this tomb] A.D. 1587'.

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of revised upload: 01 February 2012

This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 3/2010).

References

Carrigan, Rev. W. 1903 Kilcooley Abbey. Journal of the Association for the Preservation of the Memorials of the Dead vol. 5, 452-7.

Hunt, J. 1950 Rory O'Tunney and the Ossory tomb sculptures. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 80, 22-8.

Nearby in the register

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

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