Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Inscribed stone
Tibradden, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Tibradden
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 53.23848, -6.28006
- SMR number
- DU025-023002-
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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 NW slopes of Tibradden Mountain. A cross is cut on the face of a large granite rock 25m SE of a cairn (DU025-023001-). The cross is incised and has expanded terminals (H0.63m, Wth 0.44m) Beside the cross is incised a crowned figure, with upraised arms, whose body consists of a smaller but similar cross (Swords, K. ed. 2009, 108). It was first recorded by W. St. J. Joyce in 1912.
The Cairn (DU025-023001) just 25m to the NW is a monument in the Guardianship of the Minister (National Monuments No. 464)
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout and Padraig Clancy
Revised upload on: 8 July 2018
References
Joyce, W. St. John 1912 (Reprint 1995) The neighbourhood of Dublin by Weston St. John Joyce. Dublin. Hughes and Hughes.
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.
Joyce, W. St. John, 1912 (1988 ed.) Neighbourhood of Dublin. Monkstown.
Nearby in the register
- Cairn - burial cairnunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Enclosureunder 1 mi
- Field systemunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.