Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Tomb - effigial
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
- 52.51807, -7.88784
- SMR number
- TS061-025076-
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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
Inserted into the inner face of the N wall of the nave of St. Dominick's Abbey (TS061-025007-). This is a badly spawled limestone sculpture in high relief of a woman's head and neck. The roughly rectangular slab is roughly broken along the sinister and base and is probably broken along the dexter side also though it is a straight vertical break. Though badly worn the woman is wearing a pill-box head-dress and her head rests on a pillow. Her facial features are very worn but she appears to have a high forehead, oval-shaped eyes and a pointed chin. Her neck is very long and broadens out towards the shoulders, though the sculpture appears to end at the base of the neck. Stylistically it is quite similar to the effigies (TS061-025086-; TS061-025087- and TS061-025088-) in St. John the Baptist's graveyard which have been dated by Hunt (1974, vol. 1, 224) to the late 13th/early 14th century.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 05 August 2014
References
Hunt, J. 1974 Irish medieval figure sculpture 1200-1600, 2 vols. Dublin. Irish University Press.
Nearby in the register
- Tomb - chest tombunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Religious house - Dominican friarsunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.