What is recorded here

Tomb is a tomb (effigial) in Castlequarter (aghameadle Par.), bunacum, County Tipperary, Ireland. The late fifteenth-century slab lies outside the south wall at the east end of the Augustinian priory. It measures 1.33m long, 0.54m wide at top and base, and 0.17m thick. The raised inscription is partly erased but still shows Joannes O'Meara.

Situated on a slight rise of ground in undulating countryside in the centre of Toomevara village with a possible church ruins (TN022-070001-) to the N. The poorly preserved remains of an Augustinian priory (TN022-070002-) dedicated to St Mary which was founded some time after 1140 (Gwynn and Hadcock 1970, 155) possibly on the site of an earlier monastic centre dedicated to St Donain. A late fifteenth-century effigial tomb (dims. L 1.33m; top Wth 0.54m; base Wth 0.54m; T 0.17m) described by Hunt (1974, vol. 1, 94, 96, 231) lies outside the S wall at the E end of the Augustinian priory. Described by Gleeson as 'Outside the N wall is a 15th cent. Stone slab showing an ecclesiastic and inscribed in raised letters now partly erased. The name 'Joannes O'Meara' can be read' (Gleeson 1951-2, 133). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

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