Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross-slab
Dalkey, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dalkey
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.27804, -6.10578
- SMR number
- DU023-023008-
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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 cross-slab is located within a rectangular walled-in graveyard raised above the level of the road. A small Latin cross with splayed extremities on a stone in the N wall above a narrow round-headed window, W of the chancel arch of the church (DU023-023002-; O'Reilly 1901, 135, 147-149).
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout and Padraig Clancy
Uploaded on: 22 May 2018
References
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.
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Graveslab (present location)under 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.