What is recorded here

Graveslab in Newtown Lower is a graveslab in Newtown Lower, County Tipperary, Ireland. Three fragments lie at the east end of the church interior, decorated with a floriated cross and inscribed in black letter script in a 16th or 17th-century style. They may be from the same graveslab described near the south doorway, bearing a raised-letter inscription for Ricardus Hanracan and his wife Iohana Brenach, who died on the tenth day of that month in 1599.

Lying at the E end of the church interior are three fragments of a graveslab decorated with floriated cross and inscribed in black letter script, both in a 16th/17th-century style. They may be from the same graveslab described in the OS Letters as located near the S doorway, with the inscription in raised letters 'Hic jacet Ricardus Hanracan et Iohana Brenach uxor eius que obiit, x Februarii Anno Domini 1599' (O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 1, 66). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

16th/17th-century Christian graveslab; significant as an example of early modern funerary art and inscribed memorial practice in the region.

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