Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveslab
Cashel, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cashel
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.51516, -7.88588
- SMR number
- TS061-025155-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Lying recumbent W of the entrance to the Bolton library which is in the grounds of the graveyard (TS061-025035-) of the medieval church (TS061-025013-), the later replaced by St John's C of I Cathedral. A rectangular limestone slab (L 1.99m; Wth 0.79m) with a horizontal break across the face c. 1.5m from the top. Though no 17th-centuy inscription is visible, an incised inscription in Roman script south of the centre of the slab reads: HIC JACET CORPUS / REV IN CHRISTO PATRIS THOMAE PRICE / NUP CASSEL ARCHIEP/ QUI OBIIT / PRID NON AUG 1685 / AET 85 and at the bottom of the slab, on the sinister side, is inscribed 'RESCRIPT 1875'. Under this date another date '1965' has been added.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 25 July 2012
Nearby in the register
- Wall monumentunder 1 mi
- Sheela-na-gig (present location)under 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.