Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross-inscribed stone
Crooksling, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Crooksling
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.25493, -6.44640
- SMR number
- DU024-012002-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated to the E of a river valley and the N81. A block of stone with a cross-inscribed formerly stood near the well known as 'Toberna gcluas' (DU024-012001-, Ua Broin 1957, 45). This was cleared away when the modern sanitorium was erected.
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout and Padraig Clancy
Revised upload on: 6 July 2018
References
Ua Broin, L. 1957 The Mountain Commons of Saggart. In Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 87, 39-52.
Nearby in the register
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Standing stoneunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
- Barrow - ring-barrowunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.