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Graveslab

Kilgobbin, County Dublin, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Graveslab, Kilgobbin, 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
Kilgobbin
County
Dublin
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.25616, -6.21768
SMR number
DU025-016005-

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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

Situated on the N slope of Three Rock Mountain S Kilgobbin Lane, near Stepaside Village. A church (DU025-016001-) with a plain rectangular plan with an entrance porch on the NW angle of the church. Attached to the S face of the N wall of the church interior are eight carved stone fragments identified during restoration work in 1983. These comprise four quernstone fragments, a notched stone (DU025-016006); two tall granite graveslabs (DU025-016002) and a graveslab fragment (DU025-016005-).

Compiled by: Geraldine Stout and Padraig Clancy

Revised by: Caimin O'Brien

Date of revised upload: 8 May 2023

References

Anon. 1900 Excursion to Tully, Rathmichael, Kiltiernan and other places in south County Dublin. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 30, 180-92.

Anon. 1899 Miscellanea - Suidhe Mochuda ogam inscription. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 29, 262.

Ó hÉailidhe, P. 1984 Decorated stones at Kilgobbin, county Dublin. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 114, 142-4.

Nearby in the register

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

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