Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveslab
Kilgobbin, County Dublin, Ireland
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-
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 1799 "Ireland." (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
- Crossunder 1 mi
- Cross-slabunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.