Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveslab
Kilmashogue, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kilmashogue
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.26593, -6.26871
- SMR number
- DU025-066002-
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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
A cross-slab thought to have come from Kilmashogue mountain is held in the chapel of the College of St. Columba. Ball's history (1906, 63) records the existence of a church on the mountain, all traces of which had disappeared by 1912 when Joyce published his Neighbourhood of Dublin. The graveslab (L 0.69m, Wth.0.26m, T 0.07m) has a circular head which bears a Greek double-line cross in a circle (Ball 1979, 140-142). The shaft is also decorated with a square motif. The base of the shaft is rounded, in order that the cross-slab could be placed in the ground.
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout and Padraig Clancy
Revised upload on: 28 July 2018
References
Ball, E.F. 1902-20 (Reprint 1979) A history of the County Dublin, 6 vols. Dublin. Gill and Macmillan.
Joyce, W. St. John 1912 (Reprint 1995) The neighbourhood of Dublin by Weston St. John Joyce. Dublin. Hughes and Hughes.
Nearby in the register
- Cross-slab (present location)under 1 mi
- Ritual site - holy wellunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - portal tombunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.