What is recorded here

Graveslab in Athasselabbey North is a graveslab in Athasselabbey North, County Tipperary, Ireland. It lies in the chancel of the abbey at Athassel, 10.15m from the east gable and at the base of a tomb niche in the north wall. The tapering limestone slab measures 0.42m long, 0.48m wide and 0.21m deep, with chamfers along its edges and base, and shows no evidence of an inscription or design.

In the chancel of the Augustian abbey (TS068-013---) at Athassel, 10.15m from the E gable, at the base a tomb niche in the N wall. The slab (Total L 0.42m; L to base of chamfer 0.4m; Wth at top 0.48m; Wth at base 0.48m; D 0.21m) It is described by Maher (1997, 53) as a tapering limestone slab (upper surface: L 0.36m; Wth at top 0.37m; Wth at base 0.35m) with a chamfer on the dexter (Wth 0.1m) and sinister (Wth 0.06m) edges and along the base (Wth 0.07m), with no evidence to suggest that it bore an inscription or design. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 3 June 2014

A 14th- to 15th-century recumbent effigy gravestone, likely associated with a member of the local gentry or clergy; significant as a rare surviving medieval funerary monument in the region.

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