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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
52.46556, -7.69471
SMR number
TS070-040083-

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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

Lying in the floor in the E end of the S aisle of the medieval parish church of St John the Baptist (TS070-040001-), currently Holy Trinity C of I church. A slightly tapering limestone slab (L 1.87; Wth at top 0.57m; Wth at base 0.55m) decorated by a seven-armed segmental-headed cross, in relief, with a two-barred knop at the base of the cross-head. The cross-shaft rests on a pillar-base form. An inscription in latin, in Roman script, reads: HIC JACET JOHANNES HIGGIN ET UXOR EIUS ELENA MORRISIS QUI HOC FIERI FECERUNT, Ao 1627. Knowles (1904, 156) translates this as, 'Here lies John Higgin and his wife, Ellen Morrisis, who erected this Monument, A.D. 1627'.

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 19 January 2012

References

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

Nearby in the register

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

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