Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Tomb - effigial (present location)
Cashel,green, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cashel,green
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.51526, -7.88436
- SMR number
- TS061-025078-
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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
Set into a limestone niche at the E end of the SE boundary wall of the Cathedral of St John the Baptist and St Patrick's Rock graveyard (TS061-025035-) which is also a length of the town wall (TS061-025023-). This effigy of a knight in armour, with a shield, has been described in detail by Hunt (1974, vol. 1, 223) who has dated this tomb to c. 1320 as the armour closely resembles that of an effigy at Kilfane, Co. Kilkenny. This effigy is reputedly from the 'Hackett Chapel' of the Franciscan Friary (TS061-025008-) and may be that of Sir William Hackett, the founder of the friary (ibid.). Of the Hackett chapel, the 17th-century Franciscan historian Luke Wadding (1734, 47) states that 'Many tombs of the founders and other families were then to be seen' (Hunt 1974, vol. 1, 224-5). A sarcophagus (TS061-025077-) originally found in the crypt of the friary and now located in the Vicar's Choral on the Rock, is said to be the lower portion of this effigy (Hunt 1974, vol. 1, 223).
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of revised upload: 20 December 2011
References
Wadding, L. 1734 Annales minorum seu Trium ordinum a S. Francisco i institutorum, volume 9. Rome. Bernabò.
Hunt, J. 1974 Irish medieval figure sculpture 1200-1600, 2 vols. Dublin. Irish University Press.
Nearby in the register
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
- Tomb - effigial (present location)under 1 mi
- Tomb - effigial (present location)under 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
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