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Inscribed stone

Tibradden, County Dublin, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Inscribed stone, Tibradden, 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
Tibradden
County
Dublin
Country
Ireland
Coordinates
53.23848, -6.28006
SMR number
DU025-023002-

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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 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

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

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