Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveslab
Knockroe (drangan Par.), County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockroe (drangan Par.)
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.51717, -7.58264
- SMR number
- TS063-016005-
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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
Lies 2m N of the E end of the N wall of the ruined medieval church (TS063-016001-) of Drangan. This rectangular limestone slab (L 2.08m; Wth 0.62m; T 0.165m) with a plain border (Wth 0.1m) and no chamfer along the edge. It is decorated with an unusual three-armed cross, with a broad shaft which continues the length of the slab and terminates at the base where it meets the border. A curving band connects the upper side arms with the top of the cross. Beneath the cross-head there are two broad horizantal bands, one above the other, the lower being slightly shorter, both terminate with a simple point. A short illegible latin inscriptin, in raised black letter script, is confined to the upper sinister half of the border. This does not appear to be the graveslab (TS063-016004-) recorded by Brennan (1854-5, vol.3, 215) in the mid-19th century.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of revised upload: 8 October 2014
References
Brennan, J. 1854-5 Proceedings. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 3, 214-15.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.