What is recorded here
Graveslab in Nenagh North is a graveslab in Nenagh North, County Tipperary, Ireland. It is a pinkish-white sandstone conglomerate fragment with a partial Latin inscription in raised Roman script. The fragment is likely from the late medieval period, around 1600, and is set in the north face of the Penal Martyrs vault south of the chancel of the Franciscan friary church.
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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