Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross-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
- TS075-023058-
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The National Monuments Service's description
Formerly situated at Toureen Peacaun monastery (TS075 023 ). This slab was published by FitzGerald (1904, 150 51) who included a rubbing taken in 1894. According to FitzGerald the slab was lying loose at a small circular stone enclosure (TS075 023008 ) known as 'St. Peakaun's Cell' (ibid.). It is listed by Crawford (1909, 65; 1912, 242) and Macalister (1949, no. 919, 100, pl. 46, fig. 919) and was photographed in the 1930s lying loose as part of a pilgrim’s station to the W of the church (TS075 023001 ) (Waddell and Holland 1990, plate 1). The slab had been missing, however, three fragments of the slab were uncovered, buried within the church (TS075-023001-), during an excavation by Ó Carragáin in 2007 (unpublished excavation report). These slabs are currently housed in University College Cork. It is described by Okasha and Forsyth (2001, 310 12) from the various publications and drawings as a small slab (H c. 0.17m; Wth c. 0.34m; T 0.025m) which was 'part of a slab of unknown form. Incised on the visible face was an outline equal armed cross and two lines of text. One line was to the right of the right cross arm and the other line below the cross'. It is listed as Toureen Peacaun 51 (ibid.).
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 07 July 2014
References
Waddell, J. and Holland, P. 1990 The Peakaun site: Duignan's 1944 investigations. Tipperary Historical Journal, 165-86.
FitzGerald, Lord W. 1904-6 County Tipperary: Toureen, St. Peakaun's church ruins, parish of Killardry. Journal of the Association for the Preservation of the Memorials of the Dead in Ireland 6, 150-51.
Crawford, H.S. 1909 Some early monuments in the Glen of Aherlow. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 39, 62-9.
Ó Carragáin, T. 2007 Toureen Peacaun, County Tipperary. Unpublished stratigraphic report (exavation licence number: 05E0247), National Monuments Service, Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Dublin.
Okasha, E. and Forsyth, K. 2001 Early Christian inscriptions of Munster: a corpus of the inscribed stones. Cork University Press.
Macalister, R.A.S. 1949 Corpus Inscriptionum Insularum Celticarum, 2 vols. Dublin. Irish Manuscripts Commission.
Crawford, H.S. 1912 A descriptive list of early cross-slabs and pillars. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 42, 217-44.