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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
52.52004, -7.89014
SMR number
TS061-025130-

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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 rectangular slab (L 2.06m; Wth 0.53m; T 0.05m) which has a chamfer (Wth 0.02m) around the dexter and top edge (Maher 1997, 73). There is a crack across the slab face and another on the dexter side of the cross-head (ibid.). Maher (1997, 73) describes the decoration, which is in relief, as consisting of 'a seven-armed segmental cross, with each arm terminating in a simple fleur-de-lis. Three cross-bands occur at the base of the cross-head surmounting the cross-stem. The base of the cross does not survive, except for one cross-band which probably surmounted its base. A latin inscription, in Black Letter script, runs along the sides and top of the slab and continues on either side of the cross-shaft' (ibid.). It has been transcribed and translated by FitzGerald (1901-03, vol. 5, 438) as: HIC IACET PATRICIUS O'KEARNEY CIVIS CASESSELL' QUI OBIIT VICESIMO SEPTIMO MESIS / MARCII DIE QUI TUMS..... ECCLIA CASSELLIE EI' CORPUS FOUET ANTE ALTARE BRIGIDE E TUBA QUA TENET / SUB LAPIDE MEDIO UBI IACENT TUNC(?) JPE CU HONORIA ET PATRICI KEARNY. O LECTOR BENIGNE QUESO NUC DEVOTE. PRO EIUS AIA DIC PATER ET AVE. 'Here lies Patrick O'Kearny, citizen of Cashel, who died on the 27th day of March [.... who was buried?] in the Church of Cashel, his body [rests] before the Altar of Brigid, and the tomb which he occupies [...] under the middle stone, where they lie he is with Honoria and Patrick Kearny. Now, gentle reader, I devoutly beseech you to say for his soul a pater and ave'.

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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