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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, -7.57119
SMR number
TS043-034019-

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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. A limestone rectangular slab (H 2.1m; Wth 0.71m; T 0.17m) with no chamfered edge. It is decorated with a banded seven-armed floriated cross, with a three bar knop at the base of the cross head, the shaft resting on a curving Calvary mount. The banding consists of two rectangular interlocked bands which fall vertically from a horizontal position beneath the knop. There is a latin inscription in raised black letter script, within a margin, which starts on the lower dexter side, continues along the top and terminates three-quarters of the way along the sinister side, the margin continues around the base of the slab. The inscription has been transcribed by Carrigan (1903, 455) as: HIC IACET JOHANES CATWELL QUODA DUS DE MOYLASSAIN Qi OBIIT I VIGILA SCI / PATRICI A DO M/ CCCCCXXXII ET ELICIA STOUC EI' UXOR / RORICUS OTWNYE SCRIPSIT and translated as: Here lie John Cantwell formerly lord of Moylassain, who died March 16th 1532, and Ellis Stoke his wife. Rory O'Tunny wrote this.

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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.

Nearby in the register

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

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