Toomyvara Friary Crocket-Finial3D Model
Decorative carving of 15th-century date which may have belonged to a decorative doorway, tomb-surround or sedilia belonging to the medieval friary church (TN022-070002-) at Toomyvara, Co. Tipperary. This carved stone is known as a crocket-finial. The term crocket is derived from the French wrod croc, meaing hook, and is a term used to described stylized carving of curled leaves, buds or flowers which are used at regular intervals to decorate sloping edges of a finial on a doorway or tomb surround, or church sedilia etc. The word finial is derived from the Latin term finins meaning end and is a term used to describe the top or end of a decorative carving. For more information on the friary-church, visit: https://maps.archaeology.ie/HistoricEnvironment/?SMRS=TN022-070002-
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