Graveslab (present location)

The National Monuments Service's description

This is the present location of the decorated grave slab from Tully, Co. Dublin (see DU026-023011-). It is one of eleven granite early grave slabs recorded at Tully graveyard (Swords 2009). This slab (H 1.06m, Wth 0.53m – 0.56m, T 0.14m) bears a Latin ringed cross in low relief on which are five cup-marks. There is a small cupmark on each arm and one at the intersection. There is a semi-spherical boss under each arm and herringbone design flanks each side of the shaft. In 1989 the slab was taken into the care of the Office of Public Works. (Ó hÉailidhe 1973, 56-57, 135; Corlett 2014, 101, Slab 1).

Compiled by: Paul Walsh

Date of upload: 20 May 2015

References

Ó hÉailidhe, P. 1973 Early Christian graveslabs in the Dublin region. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 103, 51-64.

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.

Corlett, C. 2014 Tully church, Laughanstown, Co. Dublin. In C. Corlett and M. Potterton (eds) The church in early medieval Ireland in the light of recent archaeological excavations, 93-108. Wordwell. Dublin.