Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveslab (present location)
St. Patricksrock, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- St. Patricksrock
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.51972, -7.89057
- SMR number
- TS061-025079-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
Originally came from the Franciscan Friary (TS061-025008-) in the town of Cashel where it is recorded as TS061-025151-. It is currently housed in the Vicars Choral on the Rock of Cashel. A 13th-century tapering limestone head-slab (L 1.42m; Wth at top 0.52m; Wth at base 0.38m; T 0.15m) which was broken into two halves, which were separated and have been reunited. The top of the slab is decorated with a projecting male head with curling hair below the ears, beneath which is an incised four-armed cross with fleur-de-lys terminals, with a circular knop on the shaft below the cross head. Portion of a lombardic inscription is visible on the top right-hand side, the legible letters read: H (or P) ARES: AREVI (Hunt 1974, vol. 1, 225). The upper half of this slab was recorded by Hunt (ibid.) when it was housed in the grounds of the convent on the site of the Franciscan Friary.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
References
Hunt, J. 1974 Irish medieval figure sculpture 1200-1600, 2 vols. Dublin. Irish University Press.
Nearby in the register
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- Sarcophagusunder 1 mi
- Tomb - effigial (present location)under 1 mi
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.