Graveslab (present location)

The National Monuments Service's description

This is the present location of the decorated grave slab from Tully, Co. Dublin (see DU026-023006-). It is one of eleven granite early grave slabs recorded at Tully graveyard (Swords 2009). This slab (L 1m; Wth 0.48m and 0.10m to 0.13m T) was found deeply buried in an upright position in 1982 c. 15m SW of the chancel of the church (DU026-023001-). It tapers slightly and has a large corner broken from one end and an unknown amount from the other. It bears a cup-mark enclosed by three concentric circles. An off-centre band extends from the outer circular to the opposite end. At each side of this band are diagonal and transverse lines forming a herring bone pattern. The slab was secured to the inside wall of the chancel and in 1989 was taken into the care of the Office of Public Works. (Ó hÉailidhe 1982; Corlett 2014, 102, Slab 3).

Compiled by: Paul Walsh

Date of upload: 20 May 2015

References

Ó hÉailidhe, P. 1982 Three unrecorded early grave slabs in county Dublin. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 112, 139-41.

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.