Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross-slab
Toureen, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Toureen
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- TS075-023017-
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The National Monuments Service's description
Formerly incorporated into the interior E wall of St Peakaun's church (TS075-023001-). It is described by Okasha and Forsyth (2001, 241-2) as a small slab (H c. 0.115m; Wth c. 0.1m) and is 'a fragment of a slab of unknown form. On the visible face are incised parts of two lines, each with a right angle; they appear to have formed part of the underside of a transom and the shaft of a cross. One letter remains in each of the two lower quadrants so formed'. It is listed as Toureen Peacaun 8 (ibid.). The stone was uncovered during the 1944 excavation (Duignan 1944, 227). It is currently unlocated.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
References
Okasha, E. and Forsyth, K. 2001 Early Christian inscriptions of Munster: a corpus of the inscribed stones. Cork University Press.
Duignan, M. 1944 Early monastic site at Peakaun, Co. Tipperary. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 74, 226-7.