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
- 52.34666, -7.41332
- SMR number
- TS085-004027-
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
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). One of three limestone graveslabs lying N of the W end of the church, aligned NW-SE. The most westerly (L 1.86m; Wth 0.87m; D 0.09m) is decorated with a faded square par saltire in its upper portion. The remainder of the slab is occupied by plain script in english in horizontal bands and in the margin (Wth 0.08m). The only legible part of the inscription reads: WHO DIED Ye 23RD DCBR…Ye 57. It is dated 1700 (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 Unpublished report commissioned by the Office of Public Works, Dublin.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
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
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- Crucifixion plaqueunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.