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Tomb - chest tomb

Kilboy (Graystown Par.), County Tipperary South, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Tomb - chest tomb, Kilboy (Graystown Par.), 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
Kilboy (Graystown Par.)
County
Tipperary South
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.56663, -7.70052
SMR number
TS054-038002-

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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

In grassland on an E-facing slope overlooking small stream to E with rising grassland to W, in upland region. A carved stone pieta from a 16th-century chest tomb (Hunt 1974, vol. 1, 227; vol.2, plate 320) lies on the ground to the W of the gable of a structure covering a holy well (TS54-038001-). The well is located in an area overgrown with bushes and trees which has been fenced off from the surrounding land. The sculpture is described by Hunt (1974, vol. 1, 227) as 'The Virgin is seated and she wears a flounced robe, the three flounces with the edge of each flounce forming a repetitive wavy pattern...Her head seems to be bare and her hair falls in waves upon her shoulders. The figure of Christ on her lap is mostly missing, the head and legs being broken away. On the sinister side one of the spandrels of the canopied niche under which Our Lady is seated has some leafage of gothic type carved in it. The date must be early sixteenth century'.

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of revised upload: 30 January 2012

References

Hunt, J. 1974 Irish medieval figure sculpture 1200-1600, 2 vols. Dublin. Irish University Press.

Nearby in the register

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

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