Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross - Tau cross
Ballypatrick (temple-Etney Par.), County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Ballypatrick (temple-Etney Par.)
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.39531, -7.54955
- SMR number
- TS078-061002-
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
According to Power (1908, 9-10) the field is known as the 'Field of the Early Church Site' and was sacred to St. Bearachan. He goes on to say that the church (TS078-061001-)was situated by the W side of a little stream and associated it were some quern stones (TS078-061003-), a stone cross (TS078-061002-) and a stone object resembling a chalice (ibid.). The latter object was located in Waterford Museum (ibid.). The cross of red sandstone is T-shaped (Wth 0.38m; H 0.26m; D 0.08m), typical of Tau Crosses.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
References
Power, P. 1908 Placenames of the Decies. Journal of the Waterford and Southeast of Ireland Archaeological Society 11, 1-34, 45-78, 135-43 and 179-210.
Nearby in the register
- Bullaun stoneunder 1 mi
- Mass-rockunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Font (present location)under 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.