Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross
Laughanstown, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Laughanstown
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.24715, -6.15355
- SMR number
- DU026-023007-
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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
O'Reilly (1901, 250) records that 'On a small hillock, immediately beside the cross [DU026-023004-], are two large granite boulders, in each of which a deep, straight-sided, rectangular mortice, that evidently was made to receive a cross-shaft, has been sunk. Assuming that one of these originally served as the plinth of the existing western cross, a search in the vicinity would, probably, unearth the fragments of a third free-standing cross.' At some point in the 20th century the western cross (DU026-23004-) was set in one of the boulders. To date no fragments of a third cross have come to light (Corlett 2014, 100-101).
Compiled by: Paul Walsh
Date of upload: 20 May 2015
References
Corlett, C. 2014 Tully church, Laughanstown, Co. Dublin. In C. Corlett and M. Potterton (eds) The church in early medieval Ireland in the light of recent archaeological excavations, 93-108. Wordwell. Dublin.
O'Reilly, P.J. 1901 The Christian sepulchral leacs and free-standing crosses of the Dublin half barony of Rathdown. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 31, 134-161, 248-9.
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