Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveslab
Baptistgrange, County Tipperary South, Ireland
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-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
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
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Castle - unclassifiedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.