Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross-slab
Saggart, County Dublin, Ireland
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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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
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 A report commissioned by the Office of Public works (Unpublished).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
- Crossunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Stone headunder 1 mi
- Crossunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.