Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross-slab
Swords Glebe, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Swords Glebe
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.45751, -6.22439
- SMR number
- DU011-034007-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1799 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
There is an inscribed Early Christian grave slab fragment built into the base of the residental tower of the church (DU011-034004-) in the SE. It has a lunette-shaped terminal (Swords, K.2009, 103).
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout
Updated by: Christine Baker
Date of upload: 08 January 2015
References
Swords, K. (ed.) 2009 Pre-Norman grave-slabs and cross-inscribed stones in the Dublin region. 2009 edition of an NUIG MA thesis prepared in 1985. Tallaght, Dublin. Local Studies Section, South Dublin Library.
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Crossunder 1 mi
- Round towerunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.