Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveslab
Donaghmore, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Donaghmore
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.41296, -7.72485
- SMR number
- TS077-027006-
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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
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). In the graveyard (TS077-027004-) there is a slightly tapered sandstone graveslab (L 1m; top Wth 0.44m; base Wth 0.42m; T 0.12m) with chamfered edges which is set upright in concrete. The upper portion of the slab is decorated with an equal-armed cross with bifid terminal, in relief, within a sunken circular area. On either side of the cross shaft there is a plain rectangular panel with bifid top (Maher 1997, 55-6). Based on comparitive sylistic evidence Maher (ibid. 25) suggests a 13th/14th-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.