Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Graveslab
Donard Lower, County Wicklow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Donard Lower
- County
- Wicklow
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 53.02136, -6.61449
- SMR number
- WI021-005003-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
One of two late medieval graveslabs at Donard church (WI021-005001-). A recumbent tapering slab (L 1.79m; Wth 0.74-0.53m; T 0.19m) with bevelled edges immediately inside W door believed locally to cover the grave of St. Sylvester. The upper face is ornamented by a cross in outline at either end joined by shafts. A second tapering slab (WI021-005005-) (L 1.06m; Wth at top 0.54m; T 0.28m) with similar but cruder ornament is now erect outside the E gable of the church. (Corlett 2003, 95-97)
Compiled by: Mary Tunney
Date of upload: 20 November 2012
Nearby in the register
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Graveslabunder 1 mi
- Memorial stoneunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.