Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveslab
Fethard, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Fethard
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.46620, -7.69073
- SMR number
- TS070-040053-
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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 the graveyard (TS070-040044-) of the Augustinian abbey (TS070-040004-), standing against the external N wall of the N transept, the second from the W of a row of graveslabs. This slab (H above ground 1.83m; Wth 0.99m; D 0.145m) has an upper chamfered edge (Wth 0.03m) on the dexter side, with a chamfer underneath (Wth 0.085m). It is decorated in relief with a banded seven-armed cross with fleur-de-lis terminals. The inscription, in english in Roman lettering, runs around the the border and continues up the cross-shaft and band. It was transcribed by Knowles (1903, 141) as 'This monument reserves the corpse of James Butler, Esquier, son to the Lord Baron of Dunboyne, deceased the last day of Novermber, A.D. 1619, whose mourning wife, Dame Ellen, daughter of Sir Walter Butler, Earl of Ormonde, erected him the same'. An earlier transcription by Brennan (1862-3, 147) is erroneous as it gives the father of Dame Ellen as 'SIR WALTER O'BRIAN EARL OF THOMOND' and in the accompanying sketch of the graveslab the placing of the wording does not represent how it actually appears on the slab.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 12 January 2012
References
Knowles, Rev. J. A. 1903 Fethard: its abbey, etc. Dublin. James Duffy and Co.
Brennan, J. 1862-3 Proceedings. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 7, 146-8.
Nearby in the register
- Wall monumentunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.