What is recorded here

Tomb is a tomb (chest tomb, present location) in St. Patricksrock, County Tipperary, Ireland. It stood in the south wall of the chancel at Athassel Abbey before discovery in 1946 and movement to the college of the Vicars Choral on the Rock of Cashel. The front panel carries four complete pointed, cusped niches and part of a fifth. Each visible niche holds a knight with a shield beneath triple columns with capitals and bases.

Formerly in the S wall of the chancel of Athassel Abbey (TS068-013----), this tomb (see TS068-013011-) was discovered in 1946 and has subsequently been moved to the college of the Vicars Choral (TS061-025005-) on the Rock of Cashel. 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, vol. 1, 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 monuement from the West of England'. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of revised upload: 18 December 2011

Medieval chest tomb; 14th–15th century. Relocated from Athassel Abbey, it is significant as a re-used ecclesiastical monument associated with a former Cistercian monastic site.

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