Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveslab
Town Parks, County Tipperary South, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Town Parks
- County
- Tipperary South
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.34644, -7.41373
- SMR number
- TS085-004018-
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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 portion of a graveslab (dims. 0.78m x 0.6m). It is decorated with an I.H.S. motif, the I and S are decorated with interlace and there is a cross rising from the bar of the H. This four armed cross has trefoil terminals and rises from a curving calvary mount. On the dexter side is a sun with a crescent moon on the sinister side. Raised marginal inscription in plain latin script reads: 'HIC JACET GUALTERUS SEIX DE CAR…' and ends '... RINABU ILERQUAE'. Inscribed on the interior are some more letters and a date of either 1640 or 1641. (Farrelly and FitzPatrick 1993).
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
References
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 Unpublished report commissioned by the Office of Public Works, Dublin.
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.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.