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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-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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

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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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