Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross-inscribed pillar
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
- TS075-023074-
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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
This pillar has been built into the external face of the E gable of the church (TS075-023001-), 1.82m from the SE angle, at Toureen Peacaun monastery. It was probably built into the wall in 1944 (Okasha and Forsyth 2001, 287). In a photograph taken in the 1930s it is located at a ‘station’ at the W end of the church (ibid.). It is a pillar (H 0.785m; Wth 0.21m; T 0.025m) with a wheeled cross (H 0.48m) in relief on one face. It has the remains of an illegible six-letter inscription just above the wheel on either side of the shaft (Waddell and Holland 1990, 179; Okasha and Forsyth 2001, 286-9, listed as Toureen Peacaun 39).
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 25 March 2014
References
Waddell, J. and Holland, P. 1990 The Peakaun site: Duignan's 1944 investigations. Tipperary Historical Journal, 165-86.
Okasha, E. and Forsyth, K. 2001 Early Christian inscriptions of Munster: a corpus of the inscribed stones. Cork University Press.
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.