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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
52.46549, -7.69477
SMR number
TS070-040090-

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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 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.

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