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Graveslab

St. Patricksrock, County Tipperary South, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Graveslab, St. Patricksrock, 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
St. Patricksrock
County
Tipperary South
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.52005, -7.89009
SMR number
TS061-025122-

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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

Lying in the choir of the cathedral (TS061-025003-) on the Rock of Cashel. A tapering slab (L 2m; Wth at top 0.88m; Wth at base 0.76m), the upper portion of which is cracked on the dexter side and the lower portion has only a few fragments surviving which are cemented into position (Maher 1997, 72). It is decorated in relief with a seven-armed segmental-headed cross, each arm terminating in a fleur-de-lis (ibid.). There is a three-barred knop at the base of the cross-head, however the lower part of the cross does not survive (ibid.). A latin inscription, in Black Letter script, occurs on the two sides, base and top and on either side of the cross-shaft (ibid.). The inscription was transcribed by FitzGerald (1901-03, vol. 5, 439) as: HIC JACET PETRUS CANTUUELL FILIUS ... Q OBIIT ... with placenames on the opposite side ...POITILIBAN ET O ICESTO and along the cross-shaft, ET COULKEN. Maher (1997, 72) adds: ...ET OWLKEIN MENSIS and gives the translation as 'Here lies Peter Cantwell son of _ who died _'.

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 25 January 2012

References

Maher, D. 1997 Medieval grave-slabs of County Tipperary, 1200-1600 A.D. BAR British Series 262.

FitzGerald, Lord W. 1901-03 Cashel Parish – The Rock of Cashel. Journal of the Association for the Preservation of the Memorials of the Dead in Ireland 5, 434-48.

Nearby in the register

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

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