Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Inscribed stone
Cruagh, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Cruagh
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.25751, -6.30163
- SMR number
- DU025-003004-
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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 in a graveyard (DU025-003005-) on a steep grass-covered knoll, off the Pine Forest Road. Unlocated decorated stone, now missing, described by Crawford (1913, 167, No. 7) as; 'A squared standing stone (now missing) inscribed concentric circles' (O'Reilly 1901, 184-155; Crawford 1913, 167; Ó hÉailidhe 1957, 86, Swords 2009, 91).
See attached drawing of inscribed stone by Dr. Petrie in the Dublin Examiner October 1816
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout and Padraig Clancy
Revised by: Caimin O'Brien
Date of revised upload: 21 February 2023
References
Crawford, H.S. 1913 A descriptive list of early cross-slabs and pillars. (cont.) Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 43, 151-69, 261-5, 326-34.
Ó hÉailidhe, 1957 The Rathdown slabs. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 87, 75-88.
Ó hÉailidhe, P. 1959 Some unpublished antiquities of the Early Christian period in the Dublin area. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 89, 205-6.
O'Reilly, P.J. 1901 The Christian sepulchral leacs and free-standing crosses of the Dublin half barony of Rathdown. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 31, 134-161, 248-9.
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
- Fontunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Watchtowerunder 1 mi
- Ecclesiastical siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.