Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveslab
Bansha West, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bansha West
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.44793, -8.06330
- SMR number
- TS067-064004-
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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 graveyard immediately E of the main road through Bansha. The Ara River flows due SE to the N. The graveyard is a large sub-rectangular raised area with a significant mound at its centre upon which an 18th/19th-century church is situated. The OS letters (1840) record a 17th-century Butler graveslab located at the E end of the church. It is described as an ornamented slab bearing the following inscription in raised lettering around its perimeter -'Here lyeth Theob: Butler, grandson to Sr. Richard Butler of Knocktoher who discesed the 20th of March 1672. Pray for his soule' (O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 1, 12). Seymour (1917-20, vol. 10, 136) also provides a transcriptin of the inscription which he notes as being 'in raised Roman characters' and he describes the decoration on the slab as consisting of 'an eight-point cross, the arms ending in fleur-de-lys, while on either side of the shaft are the conventional emblems of the Crucifixion'. This graveslab could not be located at time of inspection.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of revised upload: 02 February 2012
References
O'Flanagan, Rev. M. (Compiler) 1930 Letters containing information relative to the antiquities of the county of Tipperary collected during the progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1840. Bray.
Seymour, Rev. St. J. 1920 Bansha churchyard, Parish of Templeneiry. Journal of the Association for the Preservation of the Memorials of the Dead in Ireland 10, 136.
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.