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Sundial

Toureen, County Tipperary South, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Sundial, Toureen, County Tipperary South, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Toureen
County
Tipperary South
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.40878, -7.99309
SMR number
TS075-023076-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 13. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Inserted into the external face of the S wall of the church (TS075-023001-), 1.23m from the SW angle. A roughly circular sandstone (Wth 0.52m; H 0.43m) stone with straight base and upper portion fractured along the top. Towards the top of the face of the sundial there is an almost square recess (Wth c. 0.07m) with a circular peg hole (Wth 0.035-0.04m) within it. The bottom of the stone has a rectangular mortise (Holland and Waddell 1990, 176, 179) and a photograph taken in 1955 (ibid. 186) shows the sundial with an upper and lower shaft, the upper shaft is no longer in this position. The lower rectangular shaft (Wth 0.27m; H 0.63m) is embedded in the wall directly below the sundial.

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 26 August 2011

References

Waddell, J. and Holland, P. 1990 The Peakaun site: Duignan's 1944 investigations. Tipperary Historical Journal, 165-86.

Nearby in the register

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

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