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Stone sculpture

Townparks (Caher Par.), County Tipperary South, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Stone sculpture, Townparks (Caher Par.), 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
Townparks (Caher Par.)
County
Tipperary South
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.37455, -7.92705
SMR number
TS075-048017-

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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

On the E wall of the 13th-century keep of Cahir Castle (TS075-048001-), c. 1 N of the S gateway between the middle and inner ward. This is an unusual incised carving depicting three interlocking heads, two upside down on either side of a central figure. The incised carving was noted by Holland (1988, 14-17). It is carved onto a flat-surface of a block of limestone (dims. 0.39m x 0.32m; H above ground level 1.4m) which appears to have been cut or broken and re-used in the masonry of the keep. There is a bad crack through the stone and several other small cracks. All the heads are bald, with 'jug' ears positioned high in the head, and have round eyes with a central dot for the pupil, eye-brows, a nose and a horizontal line outlining the mouth. The central head is quite disfigured, though it is the only one which has a surviving clearly defined neck, shoulders and arms, heavily incised, and ribs lightly incised.

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 17 December 2012

References

Holland, P. 1988 A carving in Cahir Castle, Co. Tipperary. North Munster Antiquarian Journal 30, 14-18.

Nearby in the register

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

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