Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
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Town Parks, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Town Parks
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.34645, -7.41376
- SMR number
- TS085-004017-
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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
On the W side of the town, N of Main Street. The medieval church of St. Nicholas of Myra (TS085-004006-) appears to have survived until c. 1813 when it was demolished and replaced by a C of I church (O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 1, 63). Incorporated in the internal face of the W end of the S boundary wall is a fragment of the upper half of a limestone slab (dims. c. 0.58m x 0.57m). It is decorated in relief with an interlace cross with unusually small fleur-de-lys terminals, a crescent moon on the sinister side and a sun on the dexter side. There is a latin marginal inscription in Black Letter script to a 'THOMAS NEAL… LI G…', the 'T' of Thomas is also decorated with an interlace pattern. (Farrelly and FitzPatrick 1993).
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
References
O'Flanagan, Rev. M. (Compiler) 1930 Letters containing information relative to the antiquities of the county of Tipperary collected during the progress of the Ordnance Survey in 1840. Bray.
Farrelly, J. and FitzPatrick, E. 1993 Urban archaeological survey - county Tipperary (South Riding) (2 vols.). Unpublished report commissioned by the Office of Public Works, Dublin.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.