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
- 52.51793, -7.88773
- SMR number
- TS061-025071-
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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 St. Dominick's Abbey (TS061-025007-), near the E wall of the S transept. This rectangular limestone slab (L 2.065m; Wth at top 0.52m; Wth at base 0.53m; T 0.09m visible above ground) has an incised decorative scheme consisting of a seven-armed floriated cross, with a shaft, consisting of two parallel lines, extending to a fleur-de-lys base. There is a knop at the base of each fleur-de-lys. There is an incised Lombardic inscription on the dexter side of the slab which is preceded by an equal-armed cross (Maher 1997, 69).
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.