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
- DU023-029012-
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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 on rock face NW of Church ruin (DU023-029003-). A Greek cross incised with expanding arms. The quadrants of a small incised circle occupy the angles of the cross arms, in each of which there is a small sub-triangular sinking (Swords, K. ed.2009, 108).
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout and Padraig Clancy
Revised upload on: 25 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.
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.