Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Inscribed 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
- TS075-023046-
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The National Monuments Service's description
Formerly situated at Toureen Peacaun monastery (TS075-023----) and currently located in National Monuments storage, Dublin. It is described by Okasha and Forsyth (2001, 283-4) as a small slab (H c. 0.11m; Wth c. 0.162m; T c. 0.033m) and is 'a fragment of a slab of unknown form. The back of the stone is plain. A fragmentary text is incised on the face of the stone. The right hand edge of the stone is original'. It is listed as Toureen Peacaun 37 (ibid.). It was uncovered during the 1987 excavation (Manning 1991, 212).
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
References
Manning, C. 1991 Toureen Peakaun: Three new inscribed slabs. Tipperary Historical Journal, 208-14.
Okasha, E. and Forsyth, K. 2001 Early Christian inscriptions of Munster: a corpus of the inscribed stones. Cork University Press.