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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
52.67075, -7.57118
SMR number
TS043-034021-

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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 S wall of the chancel of Kilcooly Abbey (TS043-034001-), within the westernmost recess. A tapering limestone slab (L 1.85m; Wth at top 0.59m; Wth at base 0.54m; T 0.13m) with a chamfered edge (W 0.02m). It is carved in relief with a cross and shaft on a stepped Calvary mount. The cross is within a shield and consists of a crossed lancet and cup on a shaft, with a Crown of Thorns at the centre, and around which are some of the symbols of the Passion, including a ladder on the dexter side, a hammer on the sinister side and underneath the crossed shafts are a pinchers, two nails, a scourge with four flails, a seamless garment and three dice. Along the top of the shield 'INRI' is inscribed. There is a latin inscription in black letter script in a rectangular band which runs along the top of the slab and drapes vertically on either side of the shield. The inscription has been transcribed by Carrigan (1903, 452) as: HIC IACENT DONALDUS OHE / DYAN & FILIUS EIUS ANNO DNI M CCCC LII and translated as, 'Here lie Donnell O'Heydan and his son, A.D. 1452'. The slab has three bad horizontal cracks and between two of these there is a further vertical crack.

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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