Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Stone sculpture
Lismore (coshmore And Coshbride By.), County Waterford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Lismore (coshmore And Coshbride By.)
- County
- Waterford
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.13984, -7.92966
- SMR number
- WA021-019015-
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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
There is a caryatid, or pillar carved as a human figure (H 0.58m; Wth 0.23m; T 0.12m), holding an open book with the inscription: IN ME.SAM DOMINI IERUSALEM DET ARMA ET CORONAS AURH (Macalister 1938; MacAlister 1945, vol. 1, 109, No. 938) attached to the W wall of the nave of the cathedral (WA021-019003-). (Henry 1937)
Henry, F. (1937) Figure in Lismore Cathedral. JRSAI, 67, 306-07.
Macalister, R. A. S. (1938) The Lismore corbel. JRSAI 68, 298-300.
Macalister, R. A. S. (1945) (reprint 1949) Corpus inscriptionum insularum Celticarum, 2 vols. Stationery Office, Dublin.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 21 March 2011
References
Macalister, R.A.S. 1945 Corpus inscriptionum insularum celticarum. Dublin. Stationery Office.
Macalister, R.A.S. 1938 The Lismore corbel. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 68, 298-300.
Henry, F. 1937 Figure in Lismore Cathedral. JRSAI, 67, 306-07.
Nearby in the register
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.