Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveslab
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, -7.88798
- SMR number
- TS061-025066-
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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
Lying prostrate in the nave of St. Dominick's Abbey (TS061-025007-), close to the N wall. This tapering limestone slab (L 2.065m; Wth at top 0.59m; Wth at base 0.35m (including missing lower sinister corner; surviving Wth 0.27m); T 0.13m visible above ground) has a crack across the middle and the lower portion is broken into several pieces. It is decorated with incised lines. At the head of the slab there is evidence of a large outer double ringed circle within which is a four-armed cross with double incised trefoil terminals. Below this there is a circular knop from which the shaft, consisting of two parallel lines, extends to a trefoil base outlined by a double incised line. Maher (1997, 68) describes addition decoration 'on the sinister side of the cross-shaft is an incised herring-bone pattern. Traces of a matching design survive on its dexter side, separated from it by an outline stem with a circular expansion near its top. Linked to this are a number of incised lines'.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
References
Maher, D. 1997 Medieval grave-slabs of County Tipperary, 1200-1600 A.D. BAR British Series 262.
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