What is recorded here

Graveslab in Laughanstown is a tapering granite slab built into the arch of an east window at Tully church, lifting dead memory into the light of the living house. It belongs with eleven early grave slabs at Tully graveyard, and its narrow shape suggests people once read death as a threshold rather than an ending. The church still stands beside that buried neighbourhood, carrying the weight of names no longer spoken.

It is one of eleven granite early grave slabs recorded at Tully graveyard (Swords 2009). This is one of four slabs built into the arch of one of the E windows of Tully church (DU026-023001-). The slab measures 0.96m long and tapers from 0.49m to 0.023m. (Swords 2009, 69, No. 82) Compiled by: Paul Walsh Date of upload: 20 May 2015

Early Christian gravestone; 7th to 10th century. Part of a group of early Christian grave slabs reused in a medieval church, indicating continuity of sacred sites and artistic tradition in the region.

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