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Wall monument

St. Patricksrock, County Tipperary South, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Wall monument, 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
52.52010, -7.89018
SMR number
TS061-025142-

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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

In the N wall of the choir of the cathedral (TS061-025003-) on the Rock of Cashel. A composite wall monument of Archbishop Hamilton who held office from 1623-1629. It consists of a badly damaged recumbent slab (L 1.8m; Wth 0.6m) set within a round-headed tomb recess with entablature. The side pilasters have moulded imposts which continue as a string-course to the rear of the recess. Above this string-course, at the rear of the recess, there is a rectangular plaque with a latin inscription, in Roman capitals, which is badly eroded and only a small part can be deciphered, which translates as 'Feed my sheep'. FitzGerald (1903, 445) quotes from Ware's 'Bishops of Ireland' (Harris vol. 1, 486) that the monument 'was defaced by a chisel in the reign of King James II by some ignorant Papist'. Above the entablature there is a heraldic achievement flanked on either side by a debased Ionic pilaster and supporting ovolo scroll, the whole resting on a plain rectangular plinth. On top is a semicircular open-fan device, itself topped by an obelisk.

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 26 January 2012

Nearby in the register

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

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