Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross-inscribed stone
Dalkey, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dalkey
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.27793, -6.10646
- SMR number
- DU023-023015-
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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 the S side of Castle Street in the ground floor of Archibold's castle (DU023-023014-). A cross-inscribed slab re-used as a lintel in the construction of Archibold's castle. The decoration comprises an incised latin cross. The shaft of the cross runs with the longer axis of the slab. The decoration is partially hidden in the construction. The slab tapers towards the cross-base indicating that it was a re-used grave slab probably from St. Begnet's (Mason 1983, 143, Swords, K. ed 2009, 105).
Complied by: Geraldine Stout and Padraig Clancy
Revised upload on: 18 June 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.
Mason, A. 1983 Cross inscribed slab in Archbold's castle, Dalkey, County Dublin. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 113, 143.
Nearby in the register
- Castle - tower houseunder 1 mi
- Crossunder 1 mi
- Crossunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.