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Graveslab

Town Parks, County Tipperary South, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Graveslab, Town Parks, County Tipperary South, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1790 map "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1882 · Ireland (southern half). (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1904 · Sheet 13. (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 Unpublished report commissioned by the Office of Public Works, Dublin.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.

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