Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveslab
Lisronagh, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lisronagh
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.41615, -7.70288
- SMR number
- TS077-010005-
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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
A late medieval graveslab is located at the E gable of the C of I church at Lisronagh, formerly a medieval church (TS077-010002-). Only the upper (dims. L 0.89m; Wth 82.5m; T 0.11m) and lower (dims. L 0.64m; Wth 0.77m at top, 0.7m at base) portion survive. The slab is described in detail by Maher (1992, 30-36). 'It consists of a seven-armed cross, carved in relief, with simple floriated terminals' (ibid. 32). The top sinister side is broken off, but there are motifs in each of the three remaining sunken segments of the cross-head and outside the cross-head (ibid.). Three of these motifs are typically 'Celtic' in style and form (ibid., 34). Maher suggests a late 15th/early 16th-century date for this graveslab (ibid.).
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
References
Maher, D. 1992 A medieval grave-slab at Lisronagh, County Tipperary. North Munster Antiquarian Journal 34, 30-36.
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Castle - ringworkunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.