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, -7.99302
- SMR number
- TS075-023071-
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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
Two fragments of a plain cross currently cemented to the internal E wall of the church (TS075-023001-), 1.2m from the S wall. Upper shaft (max. Wth 0.215m; T 0.163m) and arms (L 0.676m; H 0.216m; L of intact arm to central circular depression 0.383m; T 0.16) carved from one piece and lower shaft (Wth 0.238m) of a rectangular cross with a small rectangular tenon (H 0.035m) for some form of cap. Cross (H 1.295m) has a broken arm without evidence of a mortise for an arm (Waddell and Holland 1990, 179).
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Inscribed slabunder 1 mi
- Inscribed slabunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.