Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross-inscribed stone
Kill of The Grange, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kill of The Grange
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.24091, -6.16316
- SMR number
- DU023-015006-
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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 on a low rise, in a green area, NE of Kill Abbey road. Cross-inscribed stone described by Crawford (1913, 167) as 'A triangular fragment 10 in. [0.25m] wide, incised with a Greek cross 5 in. [0.13m] long having splayed ends'. Cross-inscribed stone described by (O'Reilly 1901, 144) as; 'a small triangular-shaped fragment that seems like the corner of a rectangular leac, and which bears an incised, equal-armed cross 5 inches [0.13m] wide, the extremities of which are splayed'. The precise location of this cross-inscribed stone within the graveyard (DU023-015002-) at Kill-of the Grange has not been identified (Ó hÉailidhe 1959, 165; Healy 1975, 1-19).
The site is located within a complex which includes a pre-Norman church with a late medieval chancel (DU023-015001-), a graveyard (DU023-015002-), a holy well (DU023-015003-) a bullaun stone (DU023-015007-), a graveslab (DU023-015005-), a stone font (DU023-015009-), the base of a stone cross (DU023-015008-), and two crosses (DU023-015004-) from the former laneway into the graveyard which are now in the care of the OPW in Trim, county Meath.
See attached photograph of cross-inscribed stone with triangular-shaped top, taken from O'Reilly 1901, 144.
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout and Padraig Clancy
Revised by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of revised upload: 12 January 2023
References
Crawford, H.S. 1913 A descriptive list of early cross-slabs and pillars. (cont.) Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 43, 151-69, 261-5, 326-34.
Ó hÉailidhe, P. 1959 Some unpublished antiquities of the Early Christian period in the Dublin area. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 89, 205-6.
O'Reilly, P.J. 1901 The Christian sepulchral leacs and free-standing crosses of the Dublin half barony of Rathdown. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 31, 134-161, 248-9.
Healy, P. 1975a Second report on monuments and sites of archaeological interest in county Dublin. An Foras Forbartha Teoranta.
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