What is recorded here

Graveslab in St. Patricksrock is a graveslab in St. Patricksrock, County Tipperary, Ireland. It lies in the cathedral choir on the Rock of Cashel as a weathered tapering slab 1.98 metres long, 0.78 metres wide at the top and 0.73 metres wide at the base, with one crack across the centre and two across the lower end. Its relief carving shows a seven-armed segmental fleur-de-lis cross with broad cross-bands at the base of the cross-head and shaft, ending in a pillar-base form. A Latin inscription in Black Letter script is no longer clearly readable, but the right-hand bottom corner can be read as the son of Peter Hayden.

Lying in the choir of the cathedral (TS061-025003-) on the Rock of Cashel. A weathered tapering slab (L 1.98m; Wth at top 0.78m; Wth at base 0.73m) which has a crack across the centre and two across the lower end (Maher 1997, 72). The decoration, described by Maher (1997, 72), 'consists of a seven-armed segmental fleur-de-lis cross, carved in relief. A broad cross-band occurs at the base of the cross-head and surmounts the cross-shaft. A similar feature occurs at the base of the shaft. The cross terminates in a pillar-base form'. There is a latin inscriptin, in Black Letter script, which is not clearly discernible, though FitzGerald (1901-03, vol. 5, 437) was able to decipher the 'right-hand bottom corner' as: ...FILIUS PETRI HEDIAN... , which Maher (1997, 72) translates as, 'Son of Peter Hayden'. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 25 January 2012

A weathered medieval Christian graveslab; its significance lies in its association with the Rock of Cashel, an important early ecclesiastical and royal site in Ireland.

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