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Inscribed slab in Toureen is an inscribed slab in Toureen, County Tipperary, Ireland. The small fragment, roughly 0.08 metres high and 0.195 metres wide, is broken on all four sides and bears a pair of parallel horizontal lines that may have served as guide-lines for a one-line text. Uncovered during the 1944 excavation, it is currently incorporated into the interior east wall of St Peakaun's church.

This stone is currently incorporated into the interior E wall of St Peakaun's church (TS075-023001-). It is described by Okasha and Forsyth (2001, 238-9) as a small slab (H c. 0.08m; Wth c. 0.195m) and is 'a fragment of a slab of unknown form broken on all four sides. On the visible face of the stone is a pair of parallel horizontal lines which may have been guide-lines … [for] a one-line text'. It is listed as Toureen Peacaun 6 (ibid.). The stone was uncovered during the 1944 excavation (Duignan 1944, 227; Macalister 1949, 213). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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