Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Stone sculpture
Dunshaughlin, County Meath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Dunshaughlin
- County
- Meath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.51432, -6.53947
- SMR number
- ME044-033010-
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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
Within the present Church of Ireland church of St Seachnall or Secundus, on the site of the original church and its medieval successor (ME044-033002-). A Crucifixion scene (Wth 0.34m; H 0.32m) is carved in false relief over the lintel (dims 1.5m x 0.5-0.7m; T 0.15m) of a doorway (Wth 0.74m). This stone is a thin slab that would have been set upright over the outer face of the W doorway of a 10th or 11th century, pre-Romanesque church. It is not mentioned by Butler (1892, 16) writing c. 1749, and the circumstances of its discovery are not known. It is now kept in the present church for safe-keeping.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 7 April, 2015
References
Butler, I. 1892 A journey to Lough Derg (circa. 1749). Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, 22, 13-24, 126-36.
Nearby in the register
- Stone sculptureunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Fontunder 1 mi
- Architectural fragmentunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.