Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross-inscribed stone
Dalkey Island, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dalkey Island
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.27273, -6.08580
- SMR number
- DU023-029005-
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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
Located in the NW of Dalkey Island. The inscribed stone consists of two crosses inscribed onto a rock outcrop to the W of the Church. One is a Greek Cross in a circle (H 0.25m). (Wakeman 1891, 701-702, Ó hÉailidhe 1973, 60-61).
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout and Padraig Clancy
Revised upload on: 25 June 2018
References
Wakeman, W.F. 1891b Primitive churches in county Dublin. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 21, 697-702.
Ó hÉailidhe, P. 1973, Early Christian Grave-slabs in the Dublin Region, Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries, Volume 103.
Nearby in the register
- Cross-inscribed stoneunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.