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Graveslab

St. Dominicks Abbey, County Tipperary South, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Graveslab, 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, -7.88798
SMR number
TS061-025066-

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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

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.

Nearby in the register

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

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