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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
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.24684, -6.15282
SMR number
DU026-023012-

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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

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.

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