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
- TS075-023059-
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The National Monuments Service's description
Formerly situated at Toureen Peacaun monastery (TS075-023----) and currently unlocated. The stone was uncovered during the 1944 excavation (Duignan 1944, 227; Macalister 1949, 213).The slab is missing. It is described by Okasha and Forsyth (2001, 312-13), based on Waddell and Holland’s description (1990, 171, fig. 5.19), as a small slab (H c. 0.13m; Wth c. 0.12m) which was 'a fragment of a slab of unknown form. A fragmentary text was incised on the visible face'. It is listed as Toureen Peacaun 52 (Okasha and Forsyth 2001, 312-13).
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 25 March 2014
References
Macalister, R.A.S. 1949 Corpus Inscriptionum Insularum Celticarum, 2 vols. Dublin. Irish Manuscripts Commission.
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.
Waddell, J. and Holland, P. 1990 The Peakaun site: Duignan's 1944 investigations. Tipperary Historical Journal, 165-86.