Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Standing stone
Dalkey, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dalkey
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- DU023-023009-
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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 pillar-stone is located within a rectangular walled-in graveyard raised above the level of the road. A pillar-stone identified by O'Reilly (1901, 147) close to the W doorway was not located. It was described as a narrow stone, square in plan (H 0.61m, 0.23m by 0.23m).
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout and Padraig
Revised upload 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.