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Graveslab

Baptistgrange, County Tipperary South, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Graveslab, Baptistgrange, 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
Baptistgrange
County
Tipperary South
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.42282, -7.69022
SMR number
TS077-008002-

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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

Embedded upright in the ground 1.3m E of the E gable of the medieval church of Baptistgrange (TS077-008001-). A tapering sandstone conglomerate graveslab (H above ground 1.12m; Wth at top 0.55m; Wth at base where visible 0.49m; T 0.23m) with small quartz inclusions. It faces W and is as described by Crawford (1912, 243), a 'slab 3ft. 3in. [c.1m] long, with an incised cross potent of three lines, in a single-line frame'. Maher (1997, 54) erroneously thought the slab was inverted, however, the head, though much worn, is visible as a three-armed potent cross. Within the incised rectangular terminal of each arm there is an inner rectangular depression. The cross-shaft consists of two incised lines. The cross base is buried below ground level. There are 4 deep horizontal score marks on the upper S side of the slab and 2-3 shallower ones. There is no visible inscription.

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 06 November 2013

References

Maher, D. 1997 Medieval grave-slabs of County Tipperary, 1200-1600 A.D. BAR British Series 262.

Crawford, H.S. 1912 A descriptive list of early cross-slabs and pillars. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 42, 217-44.

Nearby in the register

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

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