What is recorded here

Tomb is a tomb (effigial) in Athasselabbey North, County Tipperary, Ireland. The chamfered floor slab measures 0.99m long, 0.82m wide at the top and 0.63m wide towards the base, with its lower portion missing. It carries an incised effigy of a man in a tunic and supertunic beside a veiled woman holding a four-armed floriated cross with a knop beneath the cross-head. Hunt dates the slab to the first half of the 14th century.

Inserted into the internal E gable of the choir, on the N side. This floor-slab (L 0.99m; Wth at top 0.82m; Wth towards the base 0.63m), chamfered along its edges, is decorated with the incised effigy of a man and woman, both dressed in civilian attire. The lower portion of the tapering slab is missing. The woman, on the dexter side, is holding a four-armed floriated cross, with a knop beneath the cross-head. She is wearing a veil on her head and a mantle over a gown with tight sleeves (Hunt 1974, 220). The man is earing a tunic with tight sleeves beneath a supertunic with a round neck and has short hair with curls below the ears (ibid.). Hunt dates this slab to the first half of the 14th century (ibid.). It has been suggested that the figures represent St. Augustine and his mother St. Monica (O'Farrell 1985, 81-2), however, there is no firm evidence to support this theory (Brennan 1990, 195). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Effigial tomb; medieval period. The tomb is significant for its incised effigy of a man and woman, reflecting funerary art and social representation in the medieval era.

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