Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Sundial
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
- 52.40878, -7.99309
- SMR number
- TS075-023076-
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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
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
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Inscribed slabunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.