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Tomb - effigial

St. Patricksrock, County Tipperary South, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Tomb - effigial, 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
52.52026, -7.89051
SMR number
TS061-025149-

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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

Positioned in a niche in the N wall of the N transept of the cathedral (TS061-025003-) on the Rock of Cashel. Hunt (1974, vol. 1, 221) suggests that this side panel (L 1.06m) is 'probably the end-slab of a double effigial tomb carved with three figures under ogee canopies and with coats of arms between them. On the dexter side is St Michael, winged and holding scales, one part of which is seized by a devil. St Michael has a sword upraised in the right hand: next is a shield bearing three fishes, probably for Hackett; then, a figure of an archbishop holding a cross-staff in his left hand and blessing with his right: beside this is a shield with an indented chief differenced by a bendlet sinister, and the sinister figure is St John the Baptist with a book in his left hand and the head of a camel-skin hanging down beneath his feet. On the top member of the tomb front are the remains of lettering. It is possible to read an S and MA in black-letter over the central figure, suggesting St Thomas of Canterbury; BUTLER and an S over the indented coat and OHES BAP over St John. The return ends of the slab are caved with small ogee canopies with elaborate pinnacles above, bearing foliage and interlace'.

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of revised upload: 20 November 2015

Nearby in the register

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

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