Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveslab
Tobertown, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tobertown
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.61720, -6.23683
- SMR number
- DU001-003004-
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
The 1992 report recorded a graveslab fragment orientated NW-SE (H 0.8m, W 0.15m, T 0.06m ) at the S end of graveyard (DU001-003001-). It was a focus for veneration and was adorned with wooden crosses on Pattern day, the 15th of August each year.
The graveslab was not located on subsequent visits.
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout
Updated by: Christine Baker
Date of upload: 9 October 2014
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.