Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveslab
Stillorgan South, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Stillorgan South
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.28569, -6.19558
- SMR number
- DU023-011003-
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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
Situated in an urban site to the N of the junction of Stillorgan Road and Merville Road. Record of a graveslab noted in 1781 by Austin Cooper. The grave slab was decorated with 'rude circles' which are believed to be of Rathdown type (Ó hÉailidhe 1957, 86). No visible surface trace. It is recorded to have been located within the walled graveyard (DU023-011002-) associated with the site of a medieval church (DU023-011001-). The curving plan of the present walled-in graveyard (DU023-011002-) indicates the possible existence of an early ecclesiastical enclosure (DU023-011004-).
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout and Padraig Clancy
Revised upload on: 22 May 2018
References
Ó hÉailidhe, 1957 The Rathdown slabs. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 87, 75-88.
Nearby in the register
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical enclosureunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Wellunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.