What is recorded here

Graveslab in Laughanstown is a one-metre granite slab buried upright near Tully graveyard, marking an early grave with a cup-mark inside three circles and a herring-bone band. It was pulled from the earth in 1982, broken at one end but still carrying the shape of someone’s devotion. The church later took the slab into its wall, as if the dead had to be brought inside before being remembered.

One of eleven granite early grave slabs recorded at Tully graveyard (Swords 2009). This slab (L 1m; Wth 0.48m and 0.10m to 0.13m T) was found deeply buried in an upright position in 1982 c. 15m SW of the chancel of the church (DU026-023001-). It tapers slightly and has a large corner broken from one end and an unknown amount from the other. It bears a cup-mark enclosed by three concentric circles. An off-centre band extends from the outer circular to the opposite end. At each side of this band are diagonal and transverse lines forming a herring bone pattern. The slab was secured to the inside wall of the chancel and in 1989 was taken into the care of the Office of Public Works (see DU018-421----) (Ó hÉailidhe 1982; Corlett 2014, 102, Slab 3). Compiled by: Paul Walsh Date of upload: 20 May 2015

Early Christian gravestone, 7th–9th century AD; one of a small group of early Christian grave slabs in the area, indicating the presence of an early monastic or burial site.

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