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, -7.88776
- SMR number
- TS061-025072-
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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 St. Dominick's Abbey (TS061-025007-), near the S wall of the S transept. Described by Maher (1997, 69), this tapering limestone slab (L of surface 1.47m; L including splayed sides 1.5m; Wth at top 0.55m; Wth at base 0.4m (0.43m including splayed edge); T 0.1m visible above ground) is broken across the middle, with a fragment of the central portion missing. There is no discernible decoration on the surface of the slab.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 5 August 2014
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.