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Originally from Athassel Abbey (TS068-013----), Co. Tipperary. Currently in the OPW store, Kilkenny (Kilkenny depot stone carving number: KD031).
One of five fragments of this chest tomb which are stored in the Kilkenny Depot (see also KK019-026383-; KK019-026393-; KK019-026394- and KK019-026396-), though three of the pieces consist of two or more pieces which have been glued together.
A piece (L 0.277m; H 0.28m) of a side panel, composed on Dundry stone, with a flat pilaster (Wth 0.156m) flanked by the columns of two niches.
The tomb pieces indicate that the Athassel chest tomb, of which one side panel is on display in the Vicars Choral (see TS061-025005-), at the Rock of Cashel, Co. Tipperary, was a free-standing structure (Manning 2005, 133). Dated by Hunt (1974, vol. 1, 219-20) and Manning (2005, 134) to the late 13th/early 14th century.
See attached photograph:
KK019-026395-_01 (photograph by Chris Corlett)
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 25 January 2023
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