What is recorded here

Graveslab in Town Parks is a graveslab in Town Parks, County Tipperary, Ireland. A fragment of the limestone slab, measuring 0.55 metres by 0.45 metres, is incorporated into the inner face of the west boundary wall of the Church of Ireland church that replaced the medieval church of St. Nicholas of Myra around 1813. It preserves part of a Latin inscription in Black Letter script reading SSORTEELUI...

On the W side of the town, N of Main Street. The medieval church of St. Nicholas of Myra (TS085-004006-) appears to have survived until c. 1813 when it was demolished and replaced by a C of I church (O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 1, 63). Incorporated in the inner face of the W boundary wall of the church is a fragment of a limestone graveslab (dims. 0.55m x 0.45m). There is a portion of a latin inscription in Black Letter script which reads: SSORTEELUI... On the slab there is also a shallow rectangular groove (dims. 0.21m x 0.04m). (Farrelly and FitzPatrick 1993). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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