What is recorded here

Graveslab in Athasselabbey North is a graveslab in Athasselabbey North, County Tipperary, Ireland. The 13th or 14th century tapering stone is 0.64m long, 0.22m wide at the top, 0.19m wide at the base and 0.13m deep. It carries an incised cross whose head has four intersecting trefoils inside an outer double line, a double-line circular knop below the head and a double-line trefoil at the shaft end. Its left edge was cut along the whole length for reuse as a window head or sill, while the right edge has a shallower rebate.

In Athassel Abbey (TS068-013----), in a vaulted store on the E range, below the former chapter house. A tapering graveslab (L 0.64m; Wth at top 0.22m; Wth at base 0.19m; D 0.13m) decorated with an incised cross. The cross-head consists of four intersecting trefoils with an outer double line, beneath the cross-head there is a double-line circular knop and the cross-shaft terminates in a double-line trefoil. The edge of the slab, where it survives at the head, lower dexter side and base, has a roll-moulding. The sinister side has been cut along its entire length when the stone was reused as a window head or sill, with a splayed ingoing cut into it (L 0.23-0.34m; D 0.05m). The dexter side has a shallower, slightly longer (L 0.33-36m) rebate cut into it. The graveslab is 13th/14th century in date. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 2 June 2014

Medieval Christian graveslab, 12th–13th century. Its incised cross and location within a monastic context indicate a connection to the Cistercian abbey, reflecting early Christian funerary practices in Ireland.

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