Toomyvara Double-Ope Stoup (TN022-070001-)3D Model
Augustinian Friary (TN022-070002-) dedicated to St Mary, founded sometime after 1140 possibly on the site of a monastery dedicated to St Donain, in the village of Toomyvara, County Tipperary with a second church building located beside the grotto in the centre of the village. The partial remains of a decorated limestone double-ope stoup of probable 15th-century date is visible in the eastern side of a doorway embrasure of a partially rebuilt church wall (TN022-070001-). The limestone stoup has been added to a sandstone base with circular-shaoed bowl which may be earlier. It is possible that this sandstone bowl may have been an earlier church stoup or a small bullaun stone that was reused as a base when the limestone fragment was inserted into this church wall. The stoup is decorated with a shield bearing winged angel with stiff-leaf decoration flanking the arched opening of the stoup. For more information on the church and stoup, visit: https://maps.archaeology.ie/HistoricEnvironment/?SMRS=TN022-070001-
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