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Graveslab

Dalkey, County Dublin, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Graveslab, Dalkey, County Dublin, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Dalkey
County
Dublin
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.27824, -6.10593
SMR number
DU023-023021-

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1799 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1841 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

Located near the N boundary wall of the graveyard (DU023-023020-). The granite slab (L 0.79m, Wth 0.47m - 0.40m, T 0.07m) is broken and is decorated on one face only. Near the broken end is a round-bottomed cupmark (D 0.06m). An incised line extends down the centre of the slab, through the cupmark and on each side of this line are six diagonal lines, forming a rough herringbone pattern (Ó hÉailidhe, 1982, 139-40, Fig. 53b; Swords, K. ed. 2009, 88-9).
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout and Padraig Clancy
Revised upload on: 28 July 2018

References

Ó hÉailidhe, P. 1982 Three unrecorded early grave slabs in county Dublin. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 112, 139-41.

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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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