Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross-slab (present location)
Taylorsgrange, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Taylorsgrange
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.26599, -6.26875
- SMR number
- DU022-057----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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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
This graveslab is at present located in the chapel of the College of St. Columba. It came originally from Kilmashogue Mountain. It has a circular head and shaft (L 0.69m, Wth 0.26m, T 0.07m), the head bears a Greek double-line cross in a circle, with a raised line around the edge. The lower shaft is decorated except for the base, which may have been placed in the ground or in a base (Ó hÉailidhe and Prendergast 1977, 141-42, Fig. 29).
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout
Date of upload: 18 November 2013
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.
Nearby in the register
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - portal tombunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.