What is recorded here

Tomb is a tomb (chest tomb) in Athasselabbey North, County Tipperary, Ireland. Discovered in 1946 inside the south chancel wall, it now stands in the college of the Vicars Choral on the Rock of Cashel. Imported Dundry stone forms its front panel, where four complete niches and part of a fifth hold shielded knights beneath pointed cusped arches. Their sword pommels and column details indicate a date from the late thirteenth or early fourteenth century.

Formerly in the S wall of the chancel, this tomb was discovered in 1946 and has subsequently been moved to the college of the Vicars Choral (TS061-025005-) on the Rock of Cashel (see TS061-025105-). The front panel is decorated with four niches and the partial remains of a fifth. The niches are pointed, cusped arches supported on triple columns with capitals and bases and each contains a knight carrying a shield. According to Hunt (1974, 220) the 'swords are of late thirteenth-century form with large circular pommels and short straight crosses. The architectural style and treatment of the figures of the knights point to a date in the second half of the thirteenth century, if not early fourteenth century. The stone is Dundry stone, and this must be an imported monument from the West of England'. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 26 August 2011

Chest tomb, medieval period. Significance lies in its association with the Rock of Cashel and former ecclesiastical context.

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