County Tipperary
Religious statues in Co. Tipperary
Tipperary holds the Rock of Cashel, the archbishop’s cathedral at Thurles, and Holy Cross Abbey, founded to keep a relic of the True Cross.
Cashel and Emly
The Cathedral of the Assumption in Thurles is the cathedral of the Archdiocese of Cashel and Emly, which covers most of the county along with part of Limerick. North Tipperary belongs largely to the Diocese of Killaloe, and the south of the county, around Clonmel and Carrick-on-Suir, to the Diocese of Waterford and Lismore.
Holy places
Holy Cross Abbey
Founded in the late twelfth century by Dónall Mór Ó Briain to house a relic of the True Cross, the abbey on the Suir was for centuries one of the great pilgrim places of Ireland. Restored, it is a parish church again. Its relics were stolen in 2011 and, to great relief in the parish, recovered.
The Rock of Cashel
The seat of the kings of Munster, given to the Church in 1101. Tradition says St Patrick baptised a king of Munster there.
Which statues suit
A county devoted to the Holy Cross is a county that knows the Passion. The Sacred Heart, Divine Mercy and Christ the King are the statues of Our Lord we would suggest first; see the whole Our Lord range.
With the archbishop’s cathedral dedicated to the Assumption, Our Lady of the Assumption suits a parish or a family with a devotion to the feast on 15 August. For farm gardens and graves, marble is the material that lasts.
For Tipperary homes and parishes
Sacred Heart of Jesus
Hand-painted resin · plain or glitter
From €60
Sacred Heart of Jesus (Open Arms)
Hand-painted resin · plain or glitter
From €55
Merciful Jesus
Hand-painted resin · plain or glitter
From €95
Christ the King
Hand-painted resin
€60
Our Lady of the Assumption
Hand-carved marble
€1,800
The Divine Mercy
Hand-carved marble
€1,650
Questions from Tipperary
How much is delivery to Co. Tipperary?
Resin statues go by post to any address in Co. Tipperary for a flat €15 per order, however many statues are in the parcel. Marble is too heavy for the post, so we deliver it ourselves; the delivery charge for each marble statue is shown on its own page before you order. We deliver marble to every part of the county, north and south, on a day agreed with you.
Do you sell crucifixes?
Our catalogue is statues. If you want a crucifix or a corpus carved for a church, ask about custom work.
Can a parish get a quote first?
Yes. Tell us what you have in mind and we will talk it through before anything is ordered; see church statues.
A statue for Tipperary?
Tell us where the statue will stand and roughly how tall it should be, and we will tell you plainly what suits. WhatsApp or ring +353 85 285 1015, or write to [email protected].
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Religious statues in Ireland
Statues of Our Lord, Our Lady and the saints for the home, the parish and the garden — hand-painted resin and hand-carved marble, delivered to every county in Ireland.
Limerick
Every June tens of thousands come to Mount St Alphonsus for the Redemptorists’ Solemn Novena to Our Lady of Perpetual Help. Limerick is also the county of St Ita of Killeedy, the ‘foster-mother of the saints of Ireland’.
Kilkenny
Kilkenny takes its name from St Canice — Cill Chainnigh, Canice’s church — and is the seat of the Diocese of Ossory, one of the oldest in Ireland.
Resin vs marble
Both materials make a good statue. They make different statues, though, and the right one depends on where it will stand, who will move it and how long you mean it to last.