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
- Coordinates
- 52.40883, -7.99302
- SMR number
- TS075-023024-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
This record in the National Monuments Service's Historic Environment Viewer ↗
The National Monuments Service's description
This stone is currently incorporated into the interior E wall of St Peakaun's church (TS075-023001-). It is described by Okasha and Forsyth (2001, 251-2) as a small slab (H c. 0.19m; Wth c. 0.14m) and is 'a fragment of a slab of unknown form. Incised on its visible face is a small linear equal-armed cross with expanded terminals. This initial cross is immediately followed by the first letter of a fragmentary text, the letter being only a little smaller than the cross. There is part of a second letter'. It is listed as Toureen Peacaun 15 (ibid.). The stone was uncovered during the 1944 excavation (Duignan 1944, 227; Macalister 1949, 213).
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of revised upload: 06 December 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.
Macalister, R.A.S. 1949 Corpus Inscriptionum Insularum Celticarum, 2 vols. Dublin. Irish Manuscripts Commission.
Nearby in the register
- Inscribed slabunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Inscribed slabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.