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Tomb - chest tomb

St. Dominicks Abbey, County Tipperary South, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Tomb - chest tomb, 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
52.51807, -7.88789
SMR number
TS061-025064-

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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

Inserted into the inner face of the N wall of the nave of St. Dominick's Abbey (TS061-025007-). This limestone fragment of a side panel from a late 16th/early 17th century altar tomb. It is stylistically similar to altar tombs produced by the O'Kerin school of monumental sculpture (1577 to 1637) which was probably based in Callan, Co. Kilkenny. The lower portion of the panel is decorated with the instruments of the Passion, including a crown of thorns with a heart in the centre and a pair of hands above and a pair of feet below, pierced with nail wounds and a crucifixion scene with a spear, sponge on a pole, hammer, pincers and ladder. This decorative scheme is divided by fluted, tapering columns. The upper portion of the panel has a horizontal frieze decorated with a scoll motif consisting of a double scroll paired to form a heart shape. The upper and lower portions of the panel are separated by a projecting horizontal moulding.

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Nearby in the register

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

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