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Graveslab in Laughanstown

Graveslab

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Nine of eleven known grave slabs at Tully survive, including four set into an east window arch of Tully church. The eighth measures 0.93m long and narrows from 0.36m to 0.15m, a small stone likely taken from a buried life and refitted into the building where people still gather.
It is one of eleven granite early grave slabs recorded at Tully graveyard (Swords 2009). This is one of four slabs which are built into the arch of one of the E windows of Tully church (DU026-023001-). It measures 0.93m long and tapers tapering from 0.36m to 0.15m. (Swords 2009, 69, No. 81). Compiled by: Paul Walsh Date of upload: 20 May 2015
Early Christian gravestone, 7th–9th century; part of a group of early Christian carved stones reused in a medieval church. These slabs are significant as rare surviving examples of early Irish Christian funerary art.

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