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
- 52.51497, -7.88520
- SMR number
- TS061-025088-
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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 appears to be that of a Hackett lady as there is an inscription along the top of the sinister side which reads: IO…HACK…ETT IL…ALI (Hunt 1974, vol. 1, 223). The effigy is described in detail by Hunt (1974, vol. 1, 223; vol. 2, fig. 27) who has dated this tomb to the late 13th/early 14th century. As with the nearby effigial tomb (TS061-025078-) of a Hackett knight, this tomb probably come from the 'Hackett Chapel' of the nearby Franciscan Friary (TS061-025008-). 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).
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
- Tomb - effigial (present location)under 1 mi
- Sheela-na-gig (present location)under 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.