Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Sarcophagus
St. Dominicks Abbey, County Tipperary South, Ireland
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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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
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.