Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
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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
- 52.46556, -7.69471
- SMR number
- TS070-040083-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
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.