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Inscribed slab

Toureen, County Tipperary South, Ireland

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Townland
Toureen
County
Tipperary South
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.40880, -7.99300
SMR number
TS075-023040-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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, 274-5) as a small slab (H c. 0.17m; Wth c. 0.45m) and is 'part of a slab of unknown form. Incised on the visible face is the lower half of a linear equal-armed cross with short bar expansions on the right and left terminals. Beneath this is incised a text on one horizontal line'. It is listed as Toureen Peacaun 31 (ibid.). The stone was uncovered during the 1944 excavation (Duignan 1944, 227; Macalister 1949, 213).
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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.

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