Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Tomb - effigial
Burgagery-Lands West, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Burgagery-Lands West
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.35413, -7.70628
- SMR number
- TS083-019026-
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
Located within St. Mary's church (TS083-019001-) there is a late 13th/14th-century effigial slab which was discovered at the W end of the nave, immediately S of the NW column during alterations in the 1990s. This limestone coffin-shaped slab with chamfered edges (L 1.42m; Wth at top 0.51m; Wth at base 0.27m) is currently visible under protective clear perspecs in the floor of the nave. On the surface of the slab there is an incised effigy of a figure clad in a long loose gown falling in many folds to the feet. The left hand is depicted holding the mantle string at chest height and the right hand grasps a fold of the mantle at upper leg height on the dexter side. The head of the figure is missing, either badly spawled or deliberately mutilated and the surface of the lower dexter side is also badly damaged. There is an inscription, in Lombardic characters, along the chamfer on the sinister side.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.