Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Armorial plaque
Oldbridge, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Oldbridge
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- TS083-019109-
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The National Monuments Service's description
Formerly located in the W wall of a house in Weir View terrace, Oldbridge. Lyons (1934, 264) describes a sculptured stone which 'shows the figure of a cat, with what may be a collar round its nect. It is suggested that this represents the crest of the Clanricarde and Mayo De Burghs [a cat-a-mountain sejant guardant proper collared and chained or] and also, presumably, of the Earls of Ulster: the stone may have come from the old Manor Mill of Clonmel, which was rebuilt as a creamery about the time the house was built. If so it is a memento of the De Burghs as Barons of Clonmel' (Ó Comáin 1991, 145). The stone was still visible in the wall of the house until the late 1980s or early 1990s but was then removed. This possible armorial plaque is currently unlocated.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 12 February 2015
References
Ó Comáin, M. 1991 The Poolbeg book of Irish heraldry. Dublin. Poolbeg Press.
Lyons, P. 1934 Miscellanea - Forts etc., near Clonmel. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 64, 257-68.