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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
52.52008, -7.89014
SMR number
TS061-025126-

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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 2.02m; Wth at top 0.59m; Wth at base 0.53m; T 0.1m) with two cracks across the face of the slab and the upper sinister corner is broken (Maher 1997, 72). It is decorated with a seven-armed segmental fleur-de-lis cross, carved in relief with a three-barred knop at the base of the cross-head surmounting the cross-shaft (ibid.). The cross-shaft rests on a pillar-base form (ibid.). Superimposed on the cross-shaft is a shield, possibly of the Archdeacon family (ibid.). There is a raised rectangular panel on either side of the cross-shaft, beneath the shield. A latin inscription, in Black Letter script, is discernible along the dexter and sinister sides and across the base (ibid.). It has been transcribed by FitzGerald (1901-03, vol. 5, 444) as: ... RICARDUS ARCDEKE ECCLIE...PCURATOR BUI' ET THESAURARI' MEUS EST FABRICATOR CUI PVIDECIA HAC ECCLIAM ORNAVIT ET ES' FRUCTU ANNALE I MULTIS AMPLIAVIT.... and translated (ibid., 445) as 'My maker [says the tomb] is Richard Archdeken proctor and treasurer of this church, whose forethought adorns this church and in many ways augmented its annual revenue...'.

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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