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Graveslab

Donaghmore, County Tipperary South, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Graveslab, Donaghmore, 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
Donaghmore
County
Tipperary South
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.41302, -7.72504
SMR number
TS077-027005-

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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

Donaghmore church (TS077-027001-) was dedicated to St. Farannan who exiled himself to the Continent and died at Valcoidon, renamed Waser on the Meuse in 982 (Burke 1896, 24; Harbison 1970, 226). Lying in the nave is a graveslab (max. L c. 1.58m; max. Wth 0.48m; min. Wth 0.42m; T 0.1m), broken into three fragments, tapering slightly towards base. Portion of sinister side of graveslab is missing. Decorated with a three armed cross, terminated with trefoils with single cross-bands separating these from the arms (Maher 1997, 55). A pair of such banks divides the cross-head from the shaft and another, single, example occurs at the base of the shaft surmounting a pillar-base form (ibid.). Raised plain boarder (Wth 0.08m), no evidence of lettering. Edge of slab has a slight chamfer 0.02m wide. Based on comparitive sylistic evidence Maher (ibid. 25) suggests a late 14th/15th-century date for this graveslab.

Compiled by: Jean Farrelly

Date of upload: 26 August 2011

References

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

Nearby in the register

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

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