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Sarcophagus

St. Dominicks Abbey, County Tipperary South, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Sarcophagus, St. Dominicks Abbey, 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
St. Dominicks Abbey
County
Tipperary South
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.51806, -7.88805
SMR number
TS061-025063-

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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)
  • 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (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 the NE of the interior of the nave of St. Dominick's Abbey (TS061-025007-). A limestone sarcophagus (L 2.02m; Wth at head 0.55m; Wth at base 0.47m; H of head 0.36m tapering to 0.25m at foot), the lower portion has been broken in two but repaired (Bradley 1988, 81). The interior (L 1.56m; Wth at head 0.31m) has been roughly hollowed out and has one soakage hole (0.125m x 0.13m) which was subsequently enlarged (Bradley 1988, 81) with a short channel (Wth 0.07m; D 0.025m) running into it. The sides of the sarcophagus have been broken and the top corner of the dexter head is missing. Bradley (1988, 81) dates these sarcophagi to the 13th/14th century.

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 26 August 2011

References

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

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

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