Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveslab
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
- 53.24684, -6.15282
- SMR number
- DU026-023012-
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
There is a slab in the graveyard to the W of the church and close to the gate. It bears faint traces of a Greek cross (L 0.74m, Wth 0.52m). There is a small hole in the back (Ó hEailidhe 1973, 61-62, 6d; Swords 2009, 77)
Compiled by: Geraldine Stout and Padraig Clancy.
Revised upload on: 14 April 2018.
References
Ó hÉailidhe, P. 1973, Early Christian Grave-slabs in the Dublin Region, Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries, Volume 103.
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.
Healy, P. 2009 Pre-Norman Grave-slabs and cross-inscribed stones in the Dublin Region. Local Studies Section. South Dublin Libraries, Tallaght.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.