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
- TS075-023050-
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The National Monuments Service's description
Formerly situated at Toureen Peacaun monastery (TS075-023----) and currently unlocated. The stone had been built into the internal face of the E gable of the church (TS075-023001-) and is recorded there in a photograph taken in the 1960s (Okasha and Forsyth (2001, 300).The stone is missing and is described by Okasha and Forsyth (2001, 300-301) from the 1960s photograph as a small slab (H c. 0.16m; Wth c. 0.25m) which was 'a part of a slab of unknown form. The visible face of the stone contained an incomplete text consisting of three or four letters in one line'. It is listed as Toureen Peacaun 43 (ibid.).
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 25 March 2014
References
Okasha, E. and Forsyth, K. 2001 Early Christian inscriptions of Munster: a corpus of the inscribed stones. Cork University Press.