What is recorded here

Cross-slab in Toureen is a cross-slab in Toureen, County Tipperary, Ireland. The stone is currently unlocated after formerly standing at Toureen Peacaun monastery. It was a small slab about 0.12 metres high and 0.15 metres wide, bearing the remains of an outline equal-armed cross whose three surviving limbs almost filled the visible fragment. The slab was uncovered during the 1944 excavation and later built into the internal face of the church east gable, where a 1960s photograph recorded it before it went missing.

Formerly situated at Toureen Peacaun monastery (TS075-023----) and currently unlocated. The cross-slab is listed in Waddell and Holland's (1990, 171, fig. 6.29) catalogue. The stone had been built into the internal face of the E gable of the church (TS075-023001-) and is recorded there in a photograph taken in the 1960s (Okasha and Forsyth (2001, 309-10).The stone is missing and is described by Okasha and Forsyth (2001, 309-10) based on Waddell and Holland’s description as a small slab (H c. 0.12m; Wth c. 0.15m) which was 'a fragment of a slab of unknown form. Incised on its visible face were the remains of an outline equal-armed cross. The three extant limbs almost filled the then extant portion of slab'. It is listed as Toureen Peacaun 50 (ibid.). The stone was uncovered during the 1944 excavation (Duignan 1944, 227). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 25 March 2014

Probably dates to the early medieval period, associated with the Christian monastic settlement at Toureen Peacaun. It likely served a liturgical or commemorative function, possibly marking a sacred space or burial site.

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