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
- 52.51494, -7.88527
- SMR number
- TS061-025087-
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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 S 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 an unknown woman has been described in detail by Hunt (1974, vol. 1, 223; vol. 2, fig. 28) who has dated this tomb to the late 13th/early 14th century. The effigy of the Hackett knight (TS061-025078-) within this graveyard was reputedly from the Hackett chapel in the Franciscan friary (TS061-025008-) (Hunt 1974, vol. 1, 223) c. 100m to the NE, as was, in all probability, the effigy of the Hackett lady (TS061-025088-). Of the Hackett chapel, Wadding (1734, 47) states that 'Many tombs of the founders and other families were then to be seen' (Hunt 1974, vol. 1, 224-5). It is possible that this effigy, along with one other (TS061-025086-) in the graveyard also came from the Franciscan friary rather than the medieval church of St. John (TS061-025013----) which was replaced by the existing cathedral.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of revised upload: 20 December 2011
References
Hunt, J. 1974 Irish medieval figure sculpture 1200-1600, 2 vols. Dublin. Irish University Press.
Wadding, L. 1734 Annales minorum seu Trium ordinum a S. Francisco i institutorum, volume 9. Rome. Bernabò.
Nearby in the register
- Tomb - effigial (present location)under 1 mi
- Sheela-na-gig (present location)under 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Tomb - chest tombunder 1 mi
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