Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveslab
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
- 52.46568, -7.69476
- SMR number
- TS070-040096-
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 near the N wall, towards the E end of the nave of the medieval parish church of St John the Baptist (TS070-040001-), currently the organ room of Holy Trinity C of I church. A tapering limestone slab (L 1.88m; Wth at top 0.62m; Wth at base 0.58m) with an inscription around the border in english, in Roman capitals, which reads: HERE LYETH THE BODY OF AN COOKE ALYES LANGLY YE WIFE OF PEETER COOKE BURGES IN FETHERD WHO PARTED THIS LIFE YE 12 OF FE/BRY IN YE YR OF OURE LORDE 1680. There appears to be no decoration in the centre of the slab.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 23 January 2012
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.