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Tomb - effigial (present location)

Cashel,Green, County Tipperary South, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Tomb - effigial (present location), Cashel, Green, 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
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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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

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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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