What is recorded here

Tomb is a tomb (chest tomb) in Burgagery-Lands West, County Tipperary, Ireland. An incomplete marble panel set into a pier on the internal north face of the medieval Franciscan tower shows the Virgin enthroned with the Child holding an orb surmounted by a cross, beside a surviving half-niche of a man carrying a book with a lamb, suggesting St John. In 1840 the panel leaned outside against the south church wall, and it may once have carried the black-letter prayer Ave Maria gratia plena above the figures.

Set into a pier in the internal face of the N wall of the medieval tower of the Franciscan friary (TS083-019003-). In 1840 the panel had been outside, leaning against the S wall of the church (O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 3, 71 (214)). The panel is incomplete and consists of a seated figure of the Virgin enthroned with the Child on her knee, he is holding an orb surmounted by a cross in his left hand. The figure is within an ogee-headed niche with foliate spandrels and is separated from a dexter figure, in a similar niche, by a pillar. Only the sinister half of the dexter niche survive, it bears the figure of a man carrying a book in his left arm with a lamb carved on the book, suggesting that it represents St John (Hunt 1974, vol. 1, 226). The OS letters suggest that the full panel is not currently visible as according to O'Keeffe's description there is an inscription in black letter script above the figures, the contracted letters 'sbpt1' above St John and 'Aue Maria g - - ' above the Virgin which he interprets as the prayer Ave Maria gratia plena (Hail Mary full of grace) (O'Flanagan 1930, vol. 3, 71 (214)). Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 9 January 2012

Chest tomb; medieval period. Its relocation from the church wall to the friary tower indicates possible re-use or repurposing of funerary monuments in a monastic context.

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