Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveslab
Dalkey, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dalkey
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.27805, -6.10588
- SMR number
- DU023-023003-
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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 at the N end of Dalkey town at the junction of Castle Street and Ormeau Dive. The graveslab is located is within a rectangular walled-in graveyard raised above the level of the road. The graveslab is a 'Rathdown type' and is recorded as being face down by the door in the S wall of the church (DU023-023002-; Ó hÉailidhe 1957, 80-83). It comprises a large slab decorated in relief with a ringed Latin Cross and a cupmark in the centre. Below the shaft is another cupmark within a large circle. At each end of the slab is a group of concentric circles with a central cupmark along both edges of the decorated face are semi-circular loops (L 1.65m, Wth 0.52m, T 0.18m; Ó hÉailidhe 1957, 80, 83, Swords, K. ed. 2009, 94).
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout and Padraig Clancy
Revised upload on: 22 May 2018
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.
Ó hÉailidhe, 1957 The Rathdown slabs. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 87, 75-88.
Nearby in the register
- Crossunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Graveslab (present location)under 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.