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
- 52.46549, -7.69477
- SMR number
- TS070-040090-
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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 recumbent in the graveyard (TS070-040031-) of the medieval parish church of St John the Baptist (TS070-040001-), currently Holy Trinity C of I church. A rectangular limestone slab (L 1.8m; Wth 0.71m; T 0.12m) the upper surface of which is very worn. The lower dexter corner is missing. It is decorated, in relief with a three-armed cross with a large trefoil terminating each arm and a sunken lozenge at the centre of the cross-head. There is a rectangular panel on either side of the cross-shaft. The cross-shaft rises from a simple curving calvary mount. There is an inscription in latin, in Black Letter script, but it is not clearly legible, apart from HIC JACET GASPARD in the lower sinister corner, however, it was transcribed by Long (1907-09, vol. 7, 178) as: HIC JACET GASPARD..........QUI OBIIT MARCH A.D. 1635 ET ELLENA HACKETT UXOR EJUSQUE ME FIERI FECITT [sic].
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of revised upload: 4 March 2015
References
Long, R. H. Rev. 1907-09 County Tipperary: Fethard, Church of the Holy Trinity. Journal of the Association for the Preservation of the Memorials of the Dead in Ireland 7, 175-80.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.