What is recorded here

Sundial in Toureen is a sundial in Toureen, County Tipperary, Ireland. It is inserted 1.23 metres from the southwest angle on the external face of the church’s south wall. The roughly circular sandstone stone is 0.52 metres wide and 0.43 metres high, with a straight base and a top fractured along its upper edge. Near the top of its face is an almost square recess about 0.07 metres wide containing a circular peg hole 0.035 to 0.04 metres across, and the bottom of the stone has a rectangular mortise.

Inserted into the external face of the S wall of the church (TS075-023001-), 1.23m from the SW angle. A roughly circular sandstone (Wth 0.52m; H 0.43m) stone with straight base and upper portion fractured along the top. Towards the top of the face of the sundial there is an almost square recess (Wth c. 0.07m) with a circular peg hole (Wth 0.035-0.04m) within it. The bottom of the stone has a rectangular mortise (Holland and Waddell 1990, 176, 179) and a photograph taken in 1955 (ibid. 186) shows the sundial with an upper and lower shaft, the upper shaft is no longer in this position. The lower rectangular shaft (Wth 0.27m; H 0.63m) is embedded in the wall directly below the sundial. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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