Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross-slab
Kiltiernan, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Kiltiernan
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.23516, -6.20202
- SMR number
- DU026-020005-
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
YA cross-incised granite slab lies outside the SE corner of the church (DU026-0001-) (L 0.45m, Wth 0.46m, T. 0.12m) (Pers. comm. Chris Corlett). (Wakeman 1891, 697-702; 1900, 188-190; Turner 1983, 46, Corlett & Mc Guinness 1994, 217-8, Swords, 2009, 99). The church stands within a walled graveyard, located on the summit of a S facing slope
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout and Padraig Clancy.
Revised upload on: 14 April 2018.
References
Wakeman, W.F. 1891b Primitive churches in county Dublin. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 21, 697-702.
Turner, K. 1983 If you seek monuments: a guide to the antiquities of the barony of Rathdown. Rathmichael Historical Society.
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.
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Fontunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - portal tombunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.