Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross-slab
Whitechurch, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Whitechurch
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 53.27601, -6.28365
- SMR number
- DU022-030004-
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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)
- 1841 · Ireland. (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
Attached to the exterior of the chancel (DU022-0300001-). This is a tapered granite stone (L 1.5m, Wth 0.54m-0.46m). The upper portion bears an inscribed Greek cross in a circle from which the shaft of a Latin cross with bosses under the arms descends to the bottom of the stone (Ó hÉailidhe 1982, 139-40, Fig. 53a; Turner 1983, 62-64; Swords, K ed.2009, 72-73).
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout
Date of upload: 25 April 2012
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.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.