Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveslab
Moorstown (mora Par.), County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Moorstown (mora Par.)
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.44690, -7.78063
- SMR number
- TS069-060006-
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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
In Mora church (TS069-060001-), embedded on its side in the ground under the crossing-tower. A tapering limestone graveslab (dims. L 1.13m; min. Wth 0.54m; T 0.25m) which is broken towards the base. The smooth upper surface of the slab, only the sinister side is visible, is decorated with a four-armed trefoil-headed cross of double incised lines, with a double incised circular knop (diam. 0.12m) beneath the cross-head and a narrow incised cross-shaft (Wth 0.0375m). Along the sinister side there is an incised inscription in Lombardic script, though only occasional letters are discernible. The style of cross together with the Lombardic script suggests a 13th/14th date for this graveslab. Four other similar graveslabs (TS069-060005-; TS069-060007-; TS069-060008-; TS069-060009-) within or close to the church are also likely to date from this period.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 27 September 2011
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.