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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
52.51793, -7.88776
SMR number
TS061-025072-

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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 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.

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