What is recorded here
Associated with the Franciscan friary (TN020-037002-) in the SE sector of the town of Nenagh. In the N face of the vault of 'Penal Martyrs' which is S of the chancel of the friary church. A fragment of a pinkish-white sandstone conglomerate graveslab with a partial inscription in latin in raised Roman script, which reads: ….S....OCE.....VIVS.... . The graveslab is likely to date to the late medieval period, c. 1600.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 30 August 2022
A 17th- to 18th-century Christian gravestone, associated with the Franciscan friary in Nenagh; significant as a rare surviving example of post-Reformation religious memorial art in a Penal era context.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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