Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross
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
- Coordinates
- 52.40882, -7.99300
- SMR number
- TS075-023070-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Three fragments of a plain cross are currently cemented to the external E wall of the church (TS075-023001-) at Toureen Peacaun monastery, 3.78m from the NE angle. Fragments consist of the upper shaft (H 0.469; max. Wth 0.214; T 0.16), one arm (max. L 0.541m; L of intact arm to central circular depression 0.392; H 0.224; T 0.139) and the lower shaft (H 0.57m; max. Wth 0.252m) of a rectangular cross with a small rectangular tenon (H 0.016m) for some form of cap. The cross has a large rectangular mortise for a missing arm (Waddell and Holland 1990, 179).
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 25 March 2014
Nearby in the register
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Inscribed slabunder 1 mi
- Inscribed slabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.