Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Sarcophagus
St. Patricksrock, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- St. Patricksrock
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.51994, -7.89040
- SMR number
- TS061-025061-
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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
Within Cormac's chapel (TS061-025001-), lying against its W wall. This is a a trapezoidal sandstone sarcophagus, with broken side and end panels, decorated with an Urnes-influenced melange of interlaced animals and short and long snakes executed in false relief. It was formerly in the cathedral and removed to the safety of the chapel in 1875 (Manning 2000, 21). It has been dated to the 1120s or 1130s and it has been suggested that it was designed to fit against the N wall of another church on the Rock. It may well be the tomb of Tadhg Mac Carthaig who succeeded his brother Cormac as king of Cashel and died in 1124 (Bradley 1984, 11).
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 05 August 2014
References
Bradley, J. 1984 The sarcophagus at Cormac's Chapel, Cashel, Co. Tipperary. North Munster Antiquarian Journal 26, 14-35.
Stalley, R. 1996 The Rock of Cashel (Tipperary). Archaeological Journal 153, 308-14.
Manning, C. 2000 The Rock of Cashel Co. Tipperary. Dublin. Dúchas The Heritage Service, Department of Arts, Heritage, Gaeltacht and the Islands.
Bradley, J. 1988 Anglo-Norman Sacrophagi in Ireland. In G.M. Niocaill and P.F. Wallace (eds), Keimelia: studies in medieval history and archaeology in memory of Tom Delaney, 74-94. Galway University Press.
Nearby in the register
- Wall monumentunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Chapelunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.