What is recorded here

Kill of the Grange is an ancient religious complex in County Dublin, containing a pre-Norman church, graveyard, holy well and several stone crosses. The surviving cross base now sits inside the church nave, having been moved from its original spot a hundred metres away to protect it from weather and neglect. Its empty rectangular socket still points to the smaller cross head that once stood above it, now kept elsewhere. The place feels like a memory in stone, preserving shapes and practices from before written records.

Situated on a low rise, in a green area, NE of Kill Abbey road. A granite cross base within the nave of the church (DU023-015001-) in Kill of the Grange graveyard (DU023-015002-). The base has a rectangular mortice (L 0.31m x Wth 0.25m x D. 0.12m). This cross base which had a smaller cross inserted was originally located 100m to the SSW of the church as shown on the 25-inch OSi map. The cross-base was removed c. 1970 from this location and placed inside the nave of the church for safe keeping by the OPW and the head of the cross was removed to the OPW depot at Trim, Co. Meath. The site is located within a complex which includes a pre-Norman church with a late medieval chancel (DU023-015001-), a graveyard (DU023-015002-), a holy well (DU023-015003-), a bullaun stone (DU023-015007-), a cross-inscribed stone (DU023-015005-), a stone font (DU023-015009), and two crosses (DU023-015004) from the former laneway into the graveyard which are now in the care of the OPW in the Trim depot, county Meath. See attached photograph of cross base in the nave of the church at Kill of the Grange taken by Paddy Healy, © South Dublin Libraries, Local Studies Collection, https://hdl.handle.net/10599/3491 DU023-015008-_03 photograph of cross head and base c. 1927 in its original location 100m to the SSW of the medieval church at Kill of the Grange, © South Dublin Libraries, Local Studies Collection, Patrick Healy Collection, https://hdl.handle.net/10599/1648 See attached sketch map of cross base with small cross head drawn 19/10/1970 Compiled by: Geraldine Stout and Padraig Clancy Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 12 January 2023

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