What is recorded here

Graveslab in Kilmashogue preserves a lost mountain church through a small cross-slab now held in the chapel of the College of St. Columba. Its circular head bears a Greek double-line cross, while its rounded base suggests it once stood embedded in earth rather than displayed on a shelf. The church itself vanished before 1912, leaving behind only this much thinner trace of worship, death and memory on Kilmashogue mountain.

A cross-slab thought to have come from Kilmashogue mountain is held in the chapel of the College of St. Columba. Ball's history (1906, 63) records the existence of a church on the mountain, all traces of which had disappeared by 1912 when Joyce published his Neighbourhood of Dublin. The graveslab (L 0.69m, Wth.0.26m, T 0.07m) has a circular head which bears a Greek double-line cross in a circle (Ball 1979, 140-142). The shaft is also decorated with a square motif. The base of the shaft is rounded, in order that the cross-slab could be placed in the ground. Compiled by: Geraldine Stout and Padraig Clancy Revised upload on: 28 July 2018

Christian cross-slab; medieval period. Likely associated with an early medieval ecclesiastical site on Kilmashogue mountain.

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