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Cross-inscribed pillar

Toureen, County Tipperary South, Ireland

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Townland
Toureen
County
Tipperary South
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.40884, -7.99300
SMR number
TS075-023075-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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-), 2.76m from the NE angle, at Toureen Peacaun monastery. A small cross-pillar (H 0.69m; Wth 0.23m; T 0.025m) with a wheeled cross (H 0.46m) in relief on one face (Waddell and Holland 1990, 179; Okasha and Forsyth 2001, 288-9). Okasha and Forsyth suggest it may be a companion pillar with TS075-023074- and that both may have formed part of a shrine (TS075-023072-) (ibid.).

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 25 March 2014

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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