Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross-inscribed stone
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
- 52.40882, -7.99300
- SMR number
- TS075-023038-
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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
This stone is currently incorporated into the interior E wall of a church (TS075-023001-). It is described by Okasha and Forsyth (2001, 271-2) as a small slab (H c. 0.14m; Wth c. 0.13m; T c. 0.08m visible) and is 'part of a slab of unknown form. Incised in the middle of its visible face is a small equal-armed linear cross with expanded terminals. A similar, slightly smaller cross is incised in the bottom left-corner….Comparison with other slabs incised with five crosses (a central cross and a cross in each of the four corners) suggests …this as part of an altar slab'. It is listed as Toureen Peacaun 29 (ibid.). The stone was uncovered during the 1944 excavation (Duignan 1944, 227).
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.
Nearby in the register
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.