Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveslab
Laughanstown, County Dublin, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Laughanstown
- County
- Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.24678, -6.15224
- SMR number
- DU026-023014-
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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
It is one of eleven granite early grave slabs recorded at Tully graveyard (Swords 2009). Only a portion of this slab survives. It was used as a lintel for the aumbry in the S wall of the chancel of the church (DU026-023001-). The slab has rounded angles and tapering edges and measures 0.28m long, 0.47m wide and 0.008m thick. (Swords 2009, 69, no. 80)
Compiled by: Paul Walsh
Date of upload: 20 May 2015
References
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.