Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveslab
Tintern, County Wexford, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tintern
- County
- Wexford
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 52.23697, -6.83787
- SMR number
- WX045-027006-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUniversity Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
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)
- 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1904 · Sheet 14, 1904 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
- 1911 · Sheet 14, 1911 (University Library, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
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The National Monuments Service's description
Three sandstone graveslabs were recovered at Tintern abbey without archaeological contexts. This fragment (L 0.77m; Wth 0.43m) is the base of a slab with chamfered edges that are all badly damaged. Three steps at the base of a cross are incised on it. (Manning 2010, 105, No. 3)
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 23 July, 2013
References
Manning, C. 2010. 4.2 Grave slabs. In A. Lynch 2010 Tintern Abbey, Co. Wexford: Cistercian and Colcloughs. Excavations 1982-2007. Dublin. Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government. Archaeological Monograph Series: 5.
Nearby in the register
- Religious house - Cistercian monksunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- House - 16th centuryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.