What is recorded here

Inscribed slab in Monaincha is an inscribed slab in Monaincha, County Tipperary, Ireland. Okasha and Forsyth recorded the old red sandstone fragments at 0.33 metres, 0.335 metres and 0.045 metres. The incomplete inscription may expand to SANCTUS, a reading supported by the similar lettering on the related Monaincha 5 slab. The fragments came from the early church site at Monaincha and are now displayed in the Black Mills Interpretative Centre at Roscrea.

Listed by Okasha & Forsyth as Monaincha 6 who state that the slab of old red sandstone measuring 0.33m x 0.335m x 0.045m ,`was first recorded in 1964 when it was in the NMI. A file record sheet, FILE IA/192/64 was then made by the museum, and the three fragments were photographed. The file record states that the fragments had been found `in various places in the early church site of ... Monaincha' and were mounted on the wall of the church (TN018-001001) at Monaincha. In October 1964 the fragments were removed from the Museum by the OPW and by 1983 were in the depot in Kilkenny where they remain' (Okasha & Forsyth 2001, 209). The inscribed slab reads [--]C~[S~][.][-- which can be expanded to [--] SANCTUS [--] (Okasha & Forsyth 2001, 212). According to Okasha & Forsyth `The close similarity with the lettering on Monaincha 5 (TN018-001014-) suggests that this might also have read [s]c~[s~] for s(an)c(tu)s `saint''. This slab is now on display in the Black Mills Interpretative Centre at Roscrea (TN012-010017), but originally came from the vicinity of the Romanesque church at Monaincha. References Okasha & Forsyth 2001 211-212 photo, drawing concise discussion Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

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