Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveslab
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
- 53.28135, -6.16111
- SMR number
- DU023-015012-
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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. Possible cross-inscribed slab identified by Cormac Bourke (pers. comm. 06/01/2023). The sandstone rectangular-shaped slab was set horizontally into the external face of the SW antae of the pre-Norman Church (DU023-015001-) at the Kill of the Grange. The slab is decorated with a double-line shaft of a possible cross with a semi-circular shaped terminal or knop.
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 cross-inscribed stone (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 photographs courtesy of Cormac Bourke
Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of revised upload: 12 January 2023
References
Swords, K. (ed.) 2009 Pre-Norman grave-slabs and cross-inscribed stones in the Dublin region. 2009 edition of an NUIG MA thesis prepared in 1985. Tallaght, Dublin. Local Studies Section, South Dublin Library.
Nearby in the register
- Cross (present location)under 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Fontunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.