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Graveslab

Laughanstown, County Dublin, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Graveslab, Laughanstown, 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
Laughanstown
County
Dublin
Country
Ireland
Coordinates
53.24681, -6.15241
SMR number
DU026-023010-

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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

One of eleven granite early grave slabs recorded at Tully graveyard (Swords 2009). This slab (H 1.51m, Wth 0.41-0.27m, T 0.08m) is tapered and has two vestigial arms protruding from the edges. It bears three groups of concentric circles on a central band with a herringbone pattern on either side (Ó hÉailidhe 1957, 79, no. 10; Ó hÉailidhe 1973, 56, 57, B13). In 1989 the slab was taken into the care of the Office of Public Works (see DU018-420----). (Swords 2009, 93-4; Corlett 2014, 93-4, Slab 2)

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.

Ó hÉailidhe, P. 1973 Early Christian graveslabs in the Dublin region. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 103, 51-64.

Ó hÉailidhe, 1957 The Rathdown slabs. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 87, 75-88.

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

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

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