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Cross-slab

Saggart, County Dublin, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Cross-slab, Saggart, County Dublin, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Saggart
County
Dublin
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.28144, -6.44459
SMR number
DU021-034004-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1799 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. C. Kon: Ireland. a. Prov: Leinster. Counties: 1-12 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Granite slab or pillar-stone with rounded or hogback shape set upright in the NW end of Saggart graveyard (DU021-034003-). It is shaped and bordered and bears a single shaft with a ring-headed cross at each end and mouldings along the edge (dims. L 1.42m, Wth 0.32-0.47m, T 0.25-0.39m). Ó hÉalidhe has suggested a tenth-century date (Ó hÉalidhe 1973, 103, 61; Bradley & King 1987, 2, 294; Swords 2009, 101).

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Compiled by: Geraldine Stout

Revised by: Caimin O'Brien

Date of revised upload: 24 March 2023

References

Ó hÉalidhe, P. and Prendergast, E. 1977 Two unrecorded graveslabs in county Dublin. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 101, 146-53.

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.

Bradley, J. & King, H. (1987) Urban Archaeological Survey, Dublin. A report commissioned by the Office of Public works (Unpublished).

Nearby in the register

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

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