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
- TS075-023056-
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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, 308-09).The stone is missing and is described by Okasha and Forsyth from the 1960s photograph as a small slab (H c. 0.09m; Wth c. 0.09m) which was 'part of a slab of unknown form …The visible face of the stone contained the remains of two or three letters' (ibid.). It is listed as Toureen Peacaun 49 (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.