Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveslab
Kilcoolyabbey, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilcoolyabbey
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.67056, -7.57120
- SMR number
- TS043-034022-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Formerly secured to the S wall of the chancel of Kilcooly Abbey (TS043-034001-), within the westernmost recess, this currently lies recumbent in the third vaulted chamber of the E range. A limestone rectangular slab (L 1.88m; Wth at top 0.7m; Wth at base 0.58m; T 0.22m), tapering towards the base, with no chamfered edge. The decoration, carved in relief, consists of 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. The plain margin around the edge of the slab bears no trace of an inscription. This graveslab is in very poor condition. The upper sinister corner of the slab has broken off, and the entire decorated surface of the slab is breaking away as a horizontal layer from the rest of the slab and is badly cracked and broken.
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).
Nearby in the register
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- Religious house - Cistercian monksunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Tomb - chest tombunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.