Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Exhibitionist figure
Knockgraffon, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Knockgraffon
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.41413, -7.93244
- SMR number
- TS075-019005-
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
Incorporated into the church (TS075-019002-) at Knockgraffon. At the SE angle, below the lowest coping stone, a corbel projects out S which has a contorted human figure consisting of a very worn carved human head between supporting arms or legs. One course below this there is another corbel projecting E from which a carved human figure is emerging (TS075-019006-).
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Exhibitionist figureunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.