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Graveslab

Ballyman, County Dublin, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Graveslab, Ballyman, 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
Ballyman
County
Dublin
Country
Ireland
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
53.20371, -6.15009
SMR number
DU028-002005-

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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 two early graveslabs (see also DU028-002006-) this slab formed a lintel to the church window: it was moved to the National Museum of Ireland in 1940 (Reg. no. 1940:106; see DU018-146----). The slab (L 1.32m, Wth 0.48m) is carved with two groups of concentric circles with centre cup marks, a centre band and herringbone pattern. (Ó hÉailidhe 1973, 57, no. B14; Swords 2009, 84).

DU028-002005-_01.jpg: Photograph of the graveslab (taken 1 February 2012), uploaded courtesy of Christiaan Corlett.
Compiled by: Paul Walsh and Padraig Clancy
Revised upload on: 28 July 2018

References

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

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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