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Graveslab

Fethard, County Tipperary South, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Graveslab, Fethard, County Tipperary South, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Fethard
County
Tipperary South
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.46614, -7.69061
SMR number
TS070-040061-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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 (TS070-040044-) of the Augustinian abbey (TS070-040004-), lying on its sinister side against the internal E wall of the N transept, adjacent to the exterior of the N wall of the nave. The upper dexter side of this slab has broken away and the lower sinister corner is missing. This slab (L 1.9m; Wth 0.68m; average T 0.12m) is decorated with a seven-armed segmental-headed cross, in relief, with fleur-de-lis terminals. The cross head has motifs in the four central sections, consisting of a vine-leaf, a marigold, a trefoil and a cross moline. There is a three-barred knop at the base of the cross-head and another at the base of the cross-shaft. The cross-shaft rests on a pillar-base form. According to Maher (1997, 58) an inscription, in Roman lettering which reads: PROSE. SUAQUE/PROGENIE. 24..../REDMU.... commences at the base and continues along the dexter side and across the top of the slab. The slab appears to have been more intact when Knowles (1903, 125) translated the inscription as: Redmund Vinn, who caused this stone to be erected to the memory of himself and his children, 24 December ....

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 16 January 2012

References

Knowles, Rev. J. A. 1903 Fethard: its abbey, etc. Dublin. James Duffy and Co.

Maher, D. 1997 Medieval grave-slabs of County Tipperary, 1200-1600 A.D. BAR British Series 262.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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