Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Cross-inscribed stone
Laughanstown, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Laughanstown
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.24678, -6.15233
- SMR number
- DU026-023008-
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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, 142) records that ‘lying beneath the chancel arch at Tully is a small, over-shaped fragment of stone, 15 inches long [c. 18cm], and from 5 to 7 inches thick [c. 13cm – 0.18m], which bears a cup 1¾ inches wide [4.5cm], and one inch deep [2.5cm], and beside that, an equal-armed incised cross three inches wide [7.6cm]. . .’ It is depicted in a photograph on page 141 of O'Reilly's article (ibid.). The present location of this stone is unknown.
Compiled by: Paul Walsh
Date of upload: 20 May 2015
References
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.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.