Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross
Tallaght, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tallaght
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- DU021-037021-
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The National Monuments Service's description
O'Curry describes a workman having found a 'rough roundish lump of granite with a hole through the middle' and weighing about five hundred weight while working at the site of Archbishop Fowler's bathhouse. The hole was 'screwlike', and he states that 'it looks like the pedastal of a cross, which it would seem was screwed into it' (O'Curry 1837, 32). The stone lay for some time at the end of Friar's Walk (Handcock 1899, 35).The precise location of this monument is unknown.
Compiled by Geraldine Stout
References
Handcock, W.D. 1877 (1991 ed.) The history and antiquities of Tallaght in the county of Dublin. Dublin. Anna Livia Press.